G2532–καί–kai

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

καὶ kai “and”

But if a father stands firm in his resolve, being free from all external constraint and having a legal right to act as he pleases, and in his own mind has come to the decision to keep his daughter unmarried, he will do well.

καὶ kai “and”

So that he who gives his daughter in marriage does well, and yet he who does not give her in marriage will do better.

καὶ kai “also”καὶ kai “and”

A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.

καί kai “and”

As to eating things which have been sacrificed to idols, we are fully aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One.

καὶ kai “and”

For if so-called gods do exist, either in Heaven or on earth--and in fact there are many such gods and many such lords--

καὶ kai “Even”καὶ kai “and”

yet *we* have but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things and for whose service we exist, and but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom we and all things exist.

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

But all believers do not recognize these facts. Some, from force of habit in relation to the idol, even now eat idol sacrifices as such, and their consciences, being but weak, are polluted.

καὶ kai “and”

Moreover when you thus sin against the brethren and wound their weak consciences, you are, in reality, sinning against Christ.

καὶ kai “and”

Have we not a right to claim food and drink?

καὶ kai “and”

Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do--and the Lord's brothers and Peter?

καὶ kai “also”καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

Or again, is it only Barnabas and myself who are not at liberty to give up working with our hands?

καὶ kai “and”

What soldier ever serves at his own cost? Who plants a vineyard and yet does not eat any of the grapes? Or who tends a herd of cattle and yet does not taste their milk?

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

Am I making use of merely worldly illustrations? Does not the Law speak in the same tone?

καὶ kai “also”

Is God simply thinking about the oxen? Or is it really in our interest that He speaks? Of course, it was written in our interest, because it is His will that when a plough-man ploughs, and a thresher threshes, it should be in the hope of sharing that wh

καὶ kai “and”

In the same way the Lord also directed those who proclaim the Good News to maintain themselves by the Good News.

καὶ kai “also”

To the Jews I have become like a Jew in order to win Jews; to men under the Law as if I were under the Law--although I am not--in order to win those who are under the Law;

καὶ kai “And”

but I hit hard and straight at my own body and lead it off into slavery, lest possibly, after I have been a herald to others, I should myself be rejected.

καὶ kai “and”

For I would have you remember, brethren, how our forefathers were all of them sheltered by the cloud, and all got safely through the Red Sea.

καὶ kai “and”

All were baptized in the cloud and in the sea to be followers of Moses.

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

All ate the same spiritual food,

καὶ kai “and”

and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they long drank the water that flowed from the spiritual rock that went with them--and that rock was the Christ.

καὶ kai “and”

And you must not be worshippers of idols, as some of them were. For it is written, "The People sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance."

καὶ kai “and”καὶ kai “and”

Nor may we be fornicators, like some of them who committed fornication and on a single day 23,000 of them fell dead.

καὶ kai “and”

And do not let us test the Lord too far, as some of them tested Him and were destroyed by the serpents.

καί kai “and”καὶ kai “and”