Letters to the Churches

And God hath also raised vp the Lord, and shall raise vs vp by his power.

Knowe yee not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

Doe ye not knowe, that he which coupleth himselfe with an harlot, is one body? for two, sayeth he, shalbe one flesh.

But hee that is ioyned vnto the Lord, is one spirite.

Flee fornication: euery sinne that a man doeth, is without the bodie: but hee that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne bodie.

Knowe yee not, that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye haue of God? and yee are not your owne.

For yee are bought for a price: therefore glorifie God in your bodie, and in your spirit: for they are Gods.

Nowe concerning the thinges whereof ye wrote vnto mee, It were good for a man not to touche a woman.

Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

Let the husband giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.

The wife hath not the power of her owne bodie, but ye husband: and likewise also the husband hath not ye power of his own body, but the wife.

Defraude not one another, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may giue your selues to fasting and praier, and againe come together that Satan tempt you not for your incontinecie.

But I speake this by permission, not by commandement.

For I woulde that all men were euen as I my selfe am: but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, and another after that.

Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.

But if they cannot abstaine, let them marrie: for it is better to marrie then to burne.

And vnto ye maried I comand, not I, but ye Lord, Let not ye wife depart from her husband.

But and if shee depart, let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled vnto her husband, and let not the husband put away his wife.

But to ye remnant I speake, and not ye Lord, If any brother haue a wife, ye beleeueth not, if she be content to dwell with him, let him not forsake her.

And the woman which hath an husband that beleeueth not, if he be content to dwell with her, let her not forsake him.

For the vnbeleeuing husband is sanctified to the wife, and the vnbeleeuing wife is sanctified to the husband, els were your children vncleane: but nowe are they holie.

But if the vnbeleeuing depart, let him depart: a brother or a sister is not in subiection in such things: but God hath called vs in peace.

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt saue thine husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt saue thy wife?

But as God hath distributed to euery man, as the Lord hath called euery one, so let him walke: and so ordaine I, in all Churches.

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not gather his vncircumcision: is any called vncircumcised? let him not be circumcised.