¹⁹ Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

²⁰ For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

²⁹ And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

¹⁰ So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

²⁴ Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

¹³ For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.

¹ <A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

² For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

²⁷ But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

⁸ For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

⁷ Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

⁸ This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

⁹ Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

²² A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

²⁵ So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

⁴ For, as we have a number of parts in one body, but all the parts have not the same use,

⁵ So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

⁶ And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;

⁴¹ Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.

²² Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

²⁴ And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.

²⁴ He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

¹³ My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

¹⁴ I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

¹⁵ My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

³ And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

¹⁶ For which cause we do not give way to weariness; but though our outer man is getting feebler, our inner man is made new day by day.

²⁸ And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ be ruling in your hearts, as it was the purpose of God for you to be one body; and give praise to God at all times.

⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;