Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough – you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

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?

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ’s slave.

And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many gods and many lords),

For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason for boasting, because I am compelled to do this. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

And again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! For everything belongs to you,

But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

This is my defense to those who examine me.

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?

Now when you come together at the same place, you are not really eating the Lord’s Supper.

For in fact the body is not a single member, but many.