1 Corinthians 7:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:12-14 : 12 But 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. 13 And 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. 14 For 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 7:20 : 20 Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:28-29
    2 verses
    84%

    28 If 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.

    29 But 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;

  • Rom 7:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1 Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

    2 For 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.

    3 So 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.

    4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    24 My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him.

    25 Now 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.

    26 In my opinion then, because of the present trouble, it is good for a man to keep as he is.

  • 1 Cor 7:32-40
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    79%

    32 But 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:

    33 But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

    34 And 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.

    35 Now 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.

    36 But 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.

    37 But 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.

    38 So then, he who gets married to his virgin does well, and he who keeps her unmarried does better.

    39 It 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.

    40 But it will be better for her to keep as she is, in my opinion: and it seems to me that I have the Spirit of God.

  • 1 Cor 7:7-17
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    7 It 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.

    8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.

    9 But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

    10 But 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.

    12 But 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.

    13 And 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.

    14 For 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.

    15 But if the one who is not a Christian has a desire to go away, let it be so: the brother or the sister in such a position is not forced to do one thing or the other: but it is God's pleasure that we may be at peace with one another.

    16 For 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?

    17 Only, 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-5
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    78%

    1 Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

    2 But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

    3 Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

    4 The 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.

    5 Do 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.

  • Matt 19:10
    73%

    10 The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

  • Deut 20:7
    73%

    7 Or 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:20-22
    3 verses
    73%

    20 Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.

    21 If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.

    22 For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

  • Mark 10:7-9
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    71%

    7 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;

    8 And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9 Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Matt 19:6
    70%

    6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
    69%

    16 Or 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.

  • Matt 22:25
    69%

    25 Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;

  • Mark 10:11
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    11 And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;

  • Eph 5:31
    68%

    31 For 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.

  • Lev 21:7
    68%

    7 They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.