1 Corinthians 7:17

But He said to them, “Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it has been given.

For through the grace given to me I say to each one among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound thinking, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, and who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God;

But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will direct when I come.

for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

And we have sent along with him the brother whose praise in the things of the gospel is throughout all the churches.

Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.

And I was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judea which are in Christ;

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also suffered the same things at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,

so that we ourselves boast about you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.