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Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?
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Concerning Married Life
Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
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Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.
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Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
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I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.
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Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.
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No one should seek their own good, but the good of others.
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even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.
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Correcting an Abuse of the Lord’s Supper
In the following directives I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good.
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Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.
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Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
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Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you and speak in tongues, what good will I be to you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or word of instruction?
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Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.
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Good Order in Worship
What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.
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Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
