Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

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.”

Nevertheless, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each person, so must he live. I give this sort of direction in all the churches.

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

those with tears like those not weeping, those who rejoice like those not rejoicing, those who buy like those without possessions,

I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.

With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

For it is written in the law of Moses, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” God is not concerned here about oxen, is he?

Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.

just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

If the foot says, “Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.

And if the ear says, “Since I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.