G3361–μή–mē

Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.

μὴ mē “Not”μὴ mē “not”

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

μὴ mē “not”

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.

μὴ mē “not”

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.

μὴ mē “not”

And a woman who has an unbelieving husband--if he consents to live with her, let her not separate from him.

μὴ mē “not”

Only, whatever be the condition in life which the Lord has assigned to each individual--and whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him--in that let him continue.

μὴ mē “except”

This is what I command in all the Churches. Was any one already circumcised when called? Let him not have recourse to the surgeons. Was any one uncircumcised when called? Let him remain uncircumcised.

μὴ mē “Not”μὴ mē “Not”

Were you a slave when God called you? Let not that weigh on your mind. And yet if you can get your freedom, take advantage of the opportunity.

μή mē “not”

You have all been redeemed at infinite cost: do not become slaves to men.

μὴ mē “not”

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to get free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.

μὴ mē “Not”μὴ mē “Not”

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,

μὴ mē “none”

those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess,

μὴ mē “not”μὴ mē “not”μὴ mē “not”

and those who use the world as not using it to the full. For the world as it now exists is passing away.

μὴ mē “not”

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.

μὴ mē “not”

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

μὴ mē “not”

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.

μὴ mē “except”

It is true that a particular kind of food will not bring us into God's presence; we are neither inferior to others if we abstain from it, nor superior to them if we eat it.

μὴ mē “not”

But take care lest this liberty of yours should prove a hindrance to the progress of weak believers.

μή mē “lest”

Therefore if what I eat causes my brother to fall, never again to the end of my days will I touch any kind of animal food, for fear I should cause my brother to fall.

μὴ mē “not”μὴ mē “not”

Have we not a right to claim food and drink?

μὴ mē “certainly”

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?

μὴ mē “certainly”

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

μὴ mē “not”

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

μὴ mē “Not”

For in the Law of Moses it is written, "Thou shalt not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain."

μὴ mē “Surely not”

If other teachers possess that right over you, do not we possess it much more? Yet we have not availed ourselves of the right, but we patiently endure all things rather than hinder in the least degree the progress of the Good News of the Christ.

μή mē “not”