13. Meats for the belly,
and the belly for meats:
but God shall destroy
both it and them.

Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord;
and the Lord for the body.
14. And God hath both raised up the Lord,
and will also raise up us by his own power.

        15. Know ye not
        that your bodies
        are the members of Christ?

1. Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me:
It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication,
let every man have his own wife,
and let every woman have her own husband.

        3. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence:
        and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

                4. The wife hath not power of her own body,
                but the husband: and likewise

8 Charity never faileth:
but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;
whether there be tongues, they shall cease;
whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

        9 For we know in part,
        and we prophesy in part.
        10 But when that which is perfect is come,
        then that which is in part shall be done away.

17. Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not,
that ye come together not for the better,
but for the worse.

        18. For first of all,
        when ye come together in the church,
        I hear that there be divisions among you;

                and I partly believe it.
                19. For there must be also heresies among you,
                that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

9. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

        10. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

11. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

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3. But I would have you know,
that the head of every man is Christ;
and the head of the woman is the man;
and the head of Christ is God.

4. Every man praying or prophesying,
having his head covered,
dishonoureth his head.
5. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth
with her head uncovered
dishonoureth her head:

20. Let every man abide in the same calling
wherein he was called.

        21. Art thou called being a servant?
        care not for it:
        but if thou mayest be made free,
        use it rather.

                22. For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant,
                is the Lord's freeman:
                likewise also he that is called, being free,
                is Christ's servant.

15. But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

16. For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

17. For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.