For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?

Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?

and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.