Quotes About Relationships

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the work of the Lord, how she can be holy in both body and spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world, how she can please her husband.

So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.”

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If, then, I do not know the meaning of someoneís language, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.

For if I grieve you, who is left to cheer me but those whom I have grieved?

Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one.

See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery.

Did I exploit you by anyone I sent you?

For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

And masters, do the same for your slaves. Give up your use of threats, because you know that He who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with Him.

Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,

Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.

In love, hold them in highest regard because of their work. Live in peace with one another.