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The Unmarried and the Widows
Now concerning the unmarried, I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
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I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord;
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and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband.
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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.
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A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
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For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
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yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.
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The Rights of an Apostle
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?
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If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
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Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?
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In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.
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We must not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents;
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You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
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Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
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For “the earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.”
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(Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;
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Abuses at the Lord’s Supper
But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
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When you meet together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
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The Institution of the Lord’s Supper
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
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For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
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Partaking of the Supper Unworthily
Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
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But when we are judged by the Lord, we are chastened so that we may not be condemned along with the world.
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Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus be cursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit.
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and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
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In the law it is written, “By men of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”
