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but when a contest arises, you must refer the decision to infidels?

and such were some of you: but you have been washed, you have been sanctified, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the spirit of our God.

"meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:

it cannot be. why, don't you perceive, that where there is such an attachment, they are but as one person? for the scripture says , "they two shall be as one."

but he that is attach'd to the Lord, is united to him by one and the same spirit.

flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.

the wife has not the right of her own person, but the husband: and so likewise the husband has not the right of his own person, but the wife.

but as for the rest, I speak it by way of counsel, and not of command.

for I wish that all men were as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift from God, some one way, and some another.

but if they have not the gift, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be in pain.

as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave her husband:

but if she has separated herself, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

But as to the other cases, which were not decided by the Lord; I say, if any brother has a pagan wife, who likes to live with him, let him not put her away.

but if the infidel will separate, let him go: a brother or a sister is not inslaved in such cases. but God has called us to peace; for how do you know,

O wife, but you may save your husband? or how do you know, O man, but you may save your wife?

were you called being a slave? be not perplex'd about it; but if you can obtain your freedom, don't refuse it.

not that it is a sin for you to marry; nor is it so if a virgin marry; but they that do, will be troubled for their relations, and that I would prevent.

there is the same difference between a married woman and a virgin: the last is religiously concern'd to be holy, both in body and mind: but she that is married is taken up with worldly cares to please her husband.

And this I say for your particular advantage, not to lay any constraint upon you, but as that which is most suitable to a state of uninterrupted attendance upon religion.

but he that has been steady in his purpose, and finds no necessity to alter it; if he is a master of his passion, and is heartily determin'd to keep his virginity, it is well.