<p class="bodyblock">The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances,<n id="1" /> and I am trying to spare you such problems.<n id="2" />

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman,<n id="1" /> and God is the head of Christ.

I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be strengthened.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now we do speak wisdom among the mature,<n id="1" /> but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

The one who plants and the one who waters work as one,<n id="1" /> but each will receive his reward according to his work.

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">With regard to the question about people who have never married,<n id="1" /> I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.

<t /><p class="bodytext">With regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know that &#8220;we all have knowledge.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

For now we see in a mirror indirectly,<n id="1" /> but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

What should I do?<n id="1" /> I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing praises with my spirit, but I will also sing praises with my mind.

But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Some have become arrogant,<n id="1" /> as if I were not coming to you.

But the one united with<n id="1" /> the Lord is one spirit with him.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: &#8220;It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.&#8221;<n id="1" />

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.<n id="1" />p>

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,