and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;

But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.

or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.

But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.