that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married
woman concerns herself with the business of the world--
how she shall please her husband.
007:035 Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you,
but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait
on the Lord without distraction.
007:036 If, however, a father thinks he is acting unbecomingly towards his
still unmarried daughter if she be past the bloom of her youth,
and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires;
he commits no sin; she and her suitor should be allowed to marry.
007:037 But if a father stands firm in his resolve, being free from
all external constraint and having a legal right to act
as he pleases, and in his own mind has come to the decision
to keep his daughter unmarried, he will do well.
007:038 So that he who gives his daughter in marriage does well,
and yet he who does not give her in marriage will do better.
007:039 A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period
that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty
to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.
007:040 But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she
remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God.
008:001 Now as to things which have been sacrificed to idols.
This is a subject which we already understand--because we
all have knowledge of it. Knowledge, however, tends to make
people conceited; it is love that builds us up.
008:002 If any one imagines that he already possesses any true knowledge,
he has as yet attained to no knowledge of the kind to which
he ought to have attained;
008:003 but if any one loves God, that man is known by God.
008:004 As to eating things which have been sacrificed to idols,