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Purge from you the old leaven, that you may be a new mass; so that you may be (as) unleavened bread. For our Pascha is the Meshiha, who hath been slain for us.

But to your reproach am I to say to you, So there is not among you even one wise man, who is able to adjust between a brother and his brother ?

so also the wife to her husband. For the wife hath not authority over her body, but the husband; so also the man hath not authority over his body, but his wife.

But (according as) the Lord hath distributed to every one, as Aloha hath called, so let him walk; and thus in all the churches, so I direct.

For he who a servant is called in the Lord, is the freeman of Aloha, so he who as a son of freedom is called, is a servant of the Meshiha.

26 And I consider that this is good [fn] , on account of the necessity of the time, that it is expedient for a man so to be.

Wherefore I would that you be without anxiety; for he who hath not a wife thinketh of the things of his Lord, that so he may please his Lord;

and he who hath a wife is anxious for the world, that so he may please his wife.

But there is a distinction between the wife and the virgin. She who hath no man is thoughtful of the things of her Lord, that she may be holy in her body and in her spirit; and she who hath a husband is thoughtful of the world, that so she may please her husband.

The wife, so long as her husband liveth, is bound by the law; but if her husband shall die, she is free, that she may do what she willeth, only in our Lord.

And if so you transgress against your brethren, and wound their weak consciences, do you not transgress against the Meshiha?

So also our Lord hath commanded, that they who his gospel preach, by his gospel shall live.

But I am not used in one of these; nor on this account have I thus written, that so it should be done unto me: for it were better for me that dying I should die, than that any man my glorying should make void.

Know you not, that they who run in the course, run all, but one taketh to him the victory ? So run, that you may take hold.

I therefore so run, not as about a thing unknown; and so smite I, as not smiting the air;

As, then, one is that bread, so are we one body: for all we that one bread receive.

For as a woman is from man, so is man by woman; but every thing is from Aloha.

and he blessed and brake, and said, Take, eat, this (is) my body which for you is broken: so do to my remembrance.

Likewise after they had supped he gave also the cup, and said, This cup is the new covenant in my blood; so do, whensoever you shall drink (it) to my remembrance.

For, as the body is one, and in it are many members, but all the members of the body, though many, are one body; so also is the Meshiha.