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- 1 Sam 21:4-5 : 4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women. 5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy?
- Zech 12:12-14 : 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; 14 all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
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- 1 Cor 7:1-44 verses85%
1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: {G3427} It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3Let the husband render unto the wife her due: {G2133} and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
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6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
- 1 Cor 6:15-195 verses74%
15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become {G1519} one flesh.
17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth {G1437} is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
- 1 Cor 7:9-168 verses74%
9But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband
11(but {G2532} should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and {G863} that the husband leave not his wife.
12But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.
13And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.
14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else {G1893} were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
15Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us in peace.
16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
- 1 Cor 7:33-364 verses73%
33but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
34and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
36But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.
- 1 Cor 7:27-293 verses72%
27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
28But {G2532} shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.
29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
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4[None Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
- Matt 19:9-102 verses68%