G1161–δέ–de

Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;

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and as God by His power raised the Master to life, so He will also raise us up.

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But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit.

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Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

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I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

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But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

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Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

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A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.

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Thus much in the way of concession, not of command.

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Yet I would that everybody lived as I do; but each of us has his own special gift from God--one in one direction and one in another.

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But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.

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If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

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But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;

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or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send away his wife.

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To the rest it is I who speak--not the Lord. If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, let him not send her away.

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For, in such cases, the unbelieving husband has become--and is--holy through union with a Christian woman, and the unbelieving wife is holy through union with a Christian brother. Otherwise your children would be unholy, but in reality they have a place

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If, however, the unbeliever is determined to leave, let him or her do so. Under such circumstances the Christian man or woman is no slave; God has called us to live lives of peace.

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Concerning unmarried women I have no command to give you from the Lord; but I offer you my opinion, which is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

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Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

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Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

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And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business--how he shall please the Lord;

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but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

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There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how s

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Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait on the Lord without distraction.

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If, however, a father thinks he is acting unbecomingly towards his still unmarried daughter if she be past the bloom of her youth, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin; she and her suitor should be allowed to marry

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