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

A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.

To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.

Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

In the same way the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to receive their living by the gospel.

Instead I subdue my body and make it my slave, so that after preaching to others I myself will not be disqualified.

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

I praise you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you.

For if a woman will not cover her head, she should cut off her hair. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should cover her head.

For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.

It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.

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

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.