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And this I say for your advantage; I am not laying a snare for you; but that ye may be faithful towards your Lord, in a suitable manner, while not minding worldly things.

36 But if any one thinketh that there is reproach, on account of his maiden [fn] , because she hath passed her time, and he hath not presented her to a husband, [fn] it be fitting that he present her; let him do what he desireth, he sinneth not; let her be married.

37 But he who hath firmly determined in his own mind, and nothing compelleth him, and he can act his own pleasure, and he so judgeth in his heart, that he keep his maiden [fn] , he doeth commendably.

39 A woman, while her husband liveth, is bound by the law; but if her husband sleepeth [fn] , she is free to marry whom she pleaseth, [fn] only in the Lord.

But she is happier, in my opinion, if she remain so: and I think also, that I have the Spirit of God.

And concerning sacrifices to idols, we know, that in all of us there is knowledge; and knowledge inflateth, but love edifieth.

But if any one loveth God, that man is known of him.

As to the eating of the sacrifices of idols, therefore, we know that an idol is nothing in the world; and that there is no other God, but one.

7 But there is not [fn] knowledge in every man; for there are some, who, to the present time, in their conscience, eat [fn] as an offering to idols; and because their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

But food doth not bring us near to God; for if we eat, we do not abound; and if we eat not, we are not in want.

But manifest it is, for whose sake he said it. And indeed, for our sakes it was written: because the plougher ought to plough in hope, and the thresher in hope of fruit.

And if others have this prerogative over you, doth it not belong still more to us? Yet we have not used this prerogative; but we have endured every thing, that we might in nothing impede the announcement of the Messiah.

But I have used none of these things: and I write not, that it may be so done to me; for it would be better for me to actually die, than that any one should make void my glorying.

For if I do this voluntarily, there is a reward for me: but if involuntarily, a stewardship is intrusted to me.

and to those who have not the law, I was as without the law, (although I am not without law to God, but under the law of the Messiah,) that I might gain them that are without the law.

For every one who engageth in the contest, restraineth his desires in every thing. And they run, to obtain a crown that perisheth; but we, one that perisheth not.

but I subdue my body, and reduce it to servitude; lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a reprobate.

But with a multitude of them, God was not pleased; for they fell in the wilderness.

No trial cometh on you, but what pertaineth to men: and God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tried beyond your ability, but will make an issue to your trial, that ye may be able to sustain it.

But that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. And I would not, that ye should be associates of demons.