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I do not write these things to make you feel ashamed, but to advise you as beloved children.

But I will come to you very soon, if the LORD wills, and then I shall find out not the words of these men who exalt themselves, but their power.

For the kingdom of God is not in the word, but in power.

But instead of boasting as you have, rather had you sat down mourning that he who has done this deed has not been removed from among you.

Therefore let us celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of evil and bitterness, but with the leaven of purity and sanctity.

For what business have I to judge those who are outside the church? But you may judge those who are within the church.

But brother goes to court against brother, and at that before unbelievers.

And some of these evils were to be found in some of you, but you have been cleansed, and have been sanctified, and made righteous in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God.

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not advisable for me: indeed all things are lawful for me but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Food is for the belly, and the belly for food: but God will do away with both of them. Now the body is not meant for fornication, but for our LORD; and our LORD for the body.

But he who unites himself with our LORD becomes one with him in spirit.

Keep away from fornication. Every sin that a man commits, is outside his body; but he who commits adultery sins against his own body.

The wife has no authority over her own body, but her husband; and likewise also the husband has no authority over his own body, but his wife.

But I say this only to weak persons, for it is not part of the law.

For I would that all men were like myself in purity. But every man has his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

But if they cannot endure it, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

But those who have wives, I command, yet not I, but my LORD, Let not the wife be separated from her husband;

But if she separate, let her remain single, or be reconciled to her husband; and let not the husband desert his wife.

But to the rest, I say this, not my LORD: If any brother has a wife who is not a convert, and she wishes to live with him, let him not leave her.

And the woman who has a husband who is not a convert but is content to live with her, let her not leave him.