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   be made free, use it rather.   
      
   22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's   
   freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.   
      
   23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.   
      
   24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.   
      
   25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give   
   my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.   
      
   26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I   
   say, that it is good for a man so to be.   
      
   27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed   
   from a wife? seek not a wife.   
      
   28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry,   
   she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh:   
   but I spare you.   
      
   29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both   
   they that have wives be as though they had none;   
      
   30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice,   
   as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed   
   not;   
      
   31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of   
   this world passeth away.   
      
   32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth   
   for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:   
      
   33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world,   
   how he may please his wife.   
      
   34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried   
   woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in   
   body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the   
   world, how she may please her husband.   
      
   35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare   
   upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the   
   Lord without distraction.   
      
   36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his   
   virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him   
   do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.   
      
   37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no   
   necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his   
   heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.   
      
   38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth   
   her not in marriage doeth better.   
      
   39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if   
   her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will;   
   only in the Lord.   
      
   40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think   
   also that I have the Spirit of God.   
      
   1 Corinthians Chapter 8   
      
   1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have   
   knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.   
      
   2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet   
   as he ought to know.   
      
   3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.   
      
   4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in   
   sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and   
   that there is none other God but one.   
      
   5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in   
   earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)   
      
   6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things,   
   and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we   
   by him.   
      
   7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with   
   conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an   
   idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.   
      
   8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the   
   better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.   
      
   9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a   
   stumblingblock to them that are weak.   
      
   10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the   
   idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be   
   emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;   
      
   11 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom   
   Christ died?   
      
   12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak   
   conscience, ye sin against Christ.   
      
   13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh   
   while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.   
      
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