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1 Corinthians 7

  1. 1Now concerning the things whereof all of you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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  2. 2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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  3. 3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
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  4. 4The wife has not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife.
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  5. 5Defraud all of you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that all of you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
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  6. 6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
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  7. 7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
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  8. 8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
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  9. 9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
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  10. 10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
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  11. 11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
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  12. 12But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
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  13. 13And the woman which has an husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
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  14. 14For 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.
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  15. 15But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.
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  16. 16For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how know you, O man, whether you shall save your wife?
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  17. 17But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
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  18. 18Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
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  19. 19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
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  20. 20Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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  21. 21Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather.
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  22. 22For 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.
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  23. 23All of you are bought with a price; be not all of you the servants of men.
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  24. 24Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
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  25. 25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
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  26. 26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
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  27. 27Are you bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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  28. 28But and if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
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  29. 29But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
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  30. 30And 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;
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  31. 31And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away.
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  32. 32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
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  33. 33But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
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  34. 34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
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  35. 35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that all of you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
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  36. 36But if any man think that he behaves himself indecent toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them marry.
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  37. 37Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.
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  38. 38So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage does better.
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  39. 39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
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  40. 40But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
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