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For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of words but of power.

you are to hand this man over to Satan for his body to be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved in the Day of the Lord.

It is not right for you to be proud! You know the saying, "A little bit of yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise."

You must remove the old yeast of sin so that you will be entirely pure. Then you will be like a new batch of dough without any yeast, as indeed I know you actually are. For our Passover Festival is ready, now that Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

The very fact that you have legal disputes among yourselves shows that you have failed completely. Would it not be better for you to be wronged? Would it not be better for you to be robbed?

Someone will say, "I am allowed to do anything." Yes; but not everything is good for you. I could say that I am allowed to do anything, but I am not going to let anything make me its slave.

Someone else will say, "Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food." Yes; but God will put an end to both. The body is not to be used for sexual immorality, but to serve the Lord; and the Lord provides for the body.

he bought you for a price. So use your bodies for God's glory.

Do not deny yourselves to each other, unless you first agree to do so for a while in order to spend your time in prayer; but then resume normal marital relations. In this way you will be kept from giving in to Satan's temptation because of your lack of self-control.

Now, to the unmarried and to the widows I say that it would be better for you to continue to live alone as I do.

For married people I have a command which is not my own but the Lord's: a wife must not leave her husband;

For the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to God by being united to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband. If this were not so, their children would be like pagan children; but as it is, they are acceptable to God.

For whether or not a man is circumcised means nothing; what matters is to obey God's commandments.

For a slave who has been called by the Lord is the Lord's free person; in the same way a free person who has been called by Christ is his slave.

God bought you for a price; so do not become slaves of people.

Considering the present distress, I think it is better for a man to stay as he is.

Do you have a wife? Then don't try to get rid of her. Are you unmarried? Then don't look for a wife.

those who deal in material goods, as though they were not fully occupied with them. For this world, as it is now, will not last much longer.

So then, about eating the food offered to idols: we know that an idol stands for something that does not really exist; we know that there is only the one God.

yet there is for us only one God, the Father, who is the Creator of all things and for whom we live; and there is only one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things were created and through whom we live.