1 Corinthians 7:2
But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
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- Prov 19:14 : 14 House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
- 1 Cor 7:9 : 9 But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.
- Eph 5:33 : 33 But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.
- Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. 19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
- Prov 18:22 : 22 Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.
- 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.
- 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.
- Eph 5:28 : 28 Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
- Mal 2:14 : 14 But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.
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1Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.
- 1 Cor 7:3-1412 verses82%
3Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.
4The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.
5Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.
6But this I say as my opinion, and not as an order of the Lord.
7It is my desire that all men might be even as I am. But every man has the power of his special way of life given him by God, one in this way and one in that.
8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.
9But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.
10But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband
11(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.
12But to the rest I say, and not the Lord; If a brother has a wife who is not a Christian, and it is her desire to go on living with him, let him not go away from her.
13And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband.
14For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.
- 1 Cor 7:24-296 verses78%
24My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him.
25Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.
26In my opinion then, because of the present trouble, it is good for a man to keep as he is.
27If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.
28If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.
29But I say this, my brothers, the time is short; and from now it will be wise for those who have wives to be as if they had them not;
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7For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;
8And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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2For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.
3So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.
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3For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
4So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;
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32But it is my desire for you to be free from cares. The unmarried man gives his mind to the things of the Lord, how he may give pleasure to the Lord:
33But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.
34And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.
35Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.
36But if, in any man's opinion, he is not doing what is right for his virgin, if she is past her best years, and there is need for it, let him do what seems right to him; it is no sin; let them be married.
37But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin.
38So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.
39It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.
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24For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
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33But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.
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28Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:
29For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;
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31For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
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16For how may you be certain, O wife, that you will not be the cause of salvation to your husband? or you, O husband, that you may not do the same for your wife?
17Only, as the Lord has given to a man, and as is the purpose of God for him, so let him go on living. And these are my orders for all the churches.
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4Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
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16Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.
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7Or if any man is newly married and has had no sex relations with his wife, let him go back to his house, so that in the event of his death in the fight, another man may not take her.
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17Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.
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18Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.
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5For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?
6So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.
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1If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.
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25Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;
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20Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.