G1161–δέ–de

the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

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and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

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And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

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flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

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And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,

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and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

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to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

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the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

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and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

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for I wish all men to be even as I myself `am'; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

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And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';

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and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

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and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

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but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

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And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

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for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

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And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such `cases', and in peace hath God called us;

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And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

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But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

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And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

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And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

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and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

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The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

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And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

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and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

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