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1 Corinthians 7 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Principles of Marriage
1 AND concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 But because of fornication let every man have his own wife, & let every woman have her own husband.
7 For I would all men to be as my self: but every one hath a proper gift of God; one so, and another so.
8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they so abide even as I also.
9 But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.
Unmarried and Widowed
25 And as concerning virgins, a commandment of our Lord I have not: but counsel I give, as having obtained mercy of our Lord to be faithful.
26 I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, because it is good for a man so to be.
32 But I would have you to be without carefulness. He that is without a wife, is careful for the things that pertain to our Lord, how he may please God.
33 But he that is with a wife, is careful for the things that pertain to the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided.
34 And the woman unmarried & the virgin, thinketh on the things that pertain to our Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married, thinketh on the things that pertain to the world, how she may please her husband.
35 And this I speak to your profit: not to cast a snare upon you, but to that which is honest, & that may give you power without impediment to attend upon our Lord.
36 But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured upon his virgin, for that she is past age, and if it must so be, let him do that he will. He sinneth not if she marry.
37 For he that hath determined in his heart being settled, not having necessity, but having power of his own will, and hath judged this in his heart, to keep his virgin, doeth well.
38 Therefore both he that joineth his virgin in matrimony, doeth well: and he that joineth not, doeth better.
39 A woman is bound to the law so long time as her husband liveth: but if her husband sleep, she is at liberty: let her marry to whom she will: only in our Lord.
40 But more blessed shall she be if she so remain, according to my counsel. And I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
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