But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged.

Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.

The one who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.

For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.

It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.

But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.

Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

On the first day of the week, each of you should set aside some income and save it to the extent that God has blessed you, so that a collection will not have to be made when I come.

Now, brothers and sisters, you know about the household of Stephanus, that as the first converts of Achaia, they devoted themselves to ministry for the saints. I urge you

But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.