For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who made eunuchs of themselves for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven. He who is able to receive, let him receive it.
But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, that you may not come together for judgment. And the remaining things I will set in order whenever I come.
Because of this I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved child, and faithful in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
For, brothers, you became imitators of the assemblies of God, the ones being in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered these things by your own fellow countrymen, as they did also by the Jews,
so as for us to boast ourselves in you in the assemblies of God for your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions, and the afflictions which you endure,