With regard to the collection for the saints, please follow the directions that I gave to the churches of Galatia: ¹ 

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that when you assemble it does not lead to judgment. I will give directions about other matters when I come.

Nevertheless, ¹  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.

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

You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led.

For though you may have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, because I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Now in giving the following instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse.

To the rest I say – I, not the Lord ¹  – if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her.

and he is divided. An unmarried woman ¹  or a virgin ²  is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.