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?

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.

For even though I am absent physically,<n id="1" /> I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.<n id="2" />

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.

And I say this, brothers and sisters:<n id="1" /> The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,

Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord&#8217;s brothers and Cephas?

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.p>

<p class="bodytext">But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.