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So then neither is he that plants anything, neither he that waters; but God that gives the increase.

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.

Let a man so account of us, as of attendants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

For I truly, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that has so worked this thing,

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches.

and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

But if any man thinks that he behaves himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he will; he does not sin; let them marry.

So then both he that gives his own virgin [daughter] in marriage does well; and he that does not give her in marriage shall do better.

Even so the Lord directed that those that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

But I have used none of these things: and I do not write these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it was] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void.

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

Don't you know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Even so run; that you may attain.

I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so I fight, not as beating the air:

For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech easy to understand, how shall it be known what is spoken? for you will be speaking into the air.

There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without significance.

So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that you may abound to the edifying of the church.