1 Corinthians 7

About 1 Corinthians 1 Corinthians addresses a divided church's problems, with teaching on love, worship and the resurrection.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.Selected1 Corinthians 7:1Ask

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.Selected1 Corinthians 7:2Ask

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.Selected1 Corinthians 7:3Ask

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.Selected1 Corinthians 7:4Ask

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.Selected1 Corinthians 7:5Ask

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.Selected1 Corinthians 7:6Ask

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.Selected1 Corinthians 7:7Ask

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.Selected1 Corinthians 7:8Ask

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.Selected1 Corinthians 7:9Ask

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:Selected1 Corinthians 7:10Ask

But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.Selected1 Corinthians 7:11Ask

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.Selected1 Corinthians 7:12Ask

And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.Selected1 Corinthians 7:13Ask

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.Selected1 Corinthians 7:14Ask

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.Selected1 Corinthians 7:15Ask

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?Selected1 Corinthians 7:16Ask

But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.Selected1 Corinthians 7:17Ask

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.Selected1 Corinthians 7:18Ask

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.Selected1 Corinthians 7:19Ask

Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.Selected1 Corinthians 7:20Ask

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.Selected1 Corinthians 7:21Ask

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.Selected1 Corinthians 7:22Ask

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.Selected1 Corinthians 7:23Ask

Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.Selected1 Corinthians 7:24Ask

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.Selected1 Corinthians 7:25Ask

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.Selected1 Corinthians 7:26Ask

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.Selected1 Corinthians 7:27Ask

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.Selected1 Corinthians 7:28Ask

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;Selected1 Corinthians 7:29Ask

And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;Selected1 Corinthians 7:30Ask

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.Selected1 Corinthians 7:31Ask

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:Selected1 Corinthians 7:32Ask

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.Selected1 Corinthians 7:33Ask

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.Selected1 Corinthians 7:34Ask

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.Selected1 Corinthians 7:35Ask

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.Selected1 Corinthians 7:36Ask

Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.Selected1 Corinthians 7:37Ask

So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.Selected1 Corinthians 7:38Ask

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.Selected1 Corinthians 7:39Ask

But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.Selected1 Corinthians 7:40Ask

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