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1 Corinthians 7 📜 📕 ↷
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.📜💬📚
24 Every brother wherein he was called, in that let him abide before God.📜💬📚
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.📜💬📚
27 Art thou tied to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loose from a wife? seek not a wife.📜💬📚
28 But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless tribulation of the flesh shall such have. But I spare you.📜💬📚
29 This therefore I say, brethren; the time is short, it remaineth, that they also which have wives, be as though they had not;📜💬📚
30 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;📜💬📚
31 and they that use this world, as though they used it not. For the figure of this world passeth away.📜💬📚
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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