Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” ¹  – but the immoral person sins against his own body.

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, ¹  but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.

because he not only accepted our request, but since he was very eager, ¹  he is coming ²  to you of his own accord. ³ 

On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

Let each one examine ¹  his own work. Then he can take pride ²  in himself and not compare himself with ³  someone else.

who is the down payment ¹  of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, ²  to the praise of his glory.

In the same way ¹  husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

For no one has ever hated his own body ¹  but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

Nevertheless, ¹  each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, ²  and the wife must ³  respect ⁴  her husband.

¹  although we could have imposed our weight as apostles of Christ; instead we became ²  little children ³  among you. Like a nursing mother caring for her own children,

exhorting and encouraging you and insisting that you live in a way worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and his glory.

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

For we hear that some among you are living an undisciplined life, ¹  not doing their own work but meddling in the work of others. ² 

Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat. ¹ 

But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

But now in his own time ¹  he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.

A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” ¹ 

to be self-controlled, ¹  pure, fulfilling their duties at home, ²  kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message ³  of God may not be discredited. ⁴