For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast permeates the whole batch of dough?

Principles of Marriage

Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have relations with a woman.”

A Word to the Unmarried

I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress: It is fine for a man to remain as he is.

No one should seek his own good, but the good of the other person.

And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”