1 Corinthians 7:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Luke 2:36-37 : 36 And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life 37 She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.
  • Luke 10:40-42 : 40 But Martha had her hands full of the work of the house, and she came to him and said, Lord, is it nothing to you that my sister has let me do all the work? Say to her that she is to give me some help. 41 But the Lord, answering, said to her, Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things: 42 Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him. 2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.
  • 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 (For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;
  • 2 Cor 7:11-12 : 11 For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business. 12 So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.
  • 2 Cor 8:16 : 16 But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches.

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  • 1 Cor 7:32-33
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:35-40
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    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 7:25-29
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    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.

    27 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.

    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;

  • 1 Cor 7:1-5
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    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.

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:7-14
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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.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    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?

  • Eph 5:32-33
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    32 This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

    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.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14 So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4 Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

    5 To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2 For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.

  • Eph 5:28-29
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    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:

    29 For 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;

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11 But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.

  • Deut 20:7
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    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.

  • Num 30:6
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    6 But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

  • 1 Cor 14:34
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    34 Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.

  • 1 Pet 3:7
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    7 And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.

  • 1 Tim 5:9
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    9 Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,

  • 1 Tim 5:11
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    11 But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married;

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5 And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands:

  • Num 30:9
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    9 But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
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    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.

  • Eph 5:22
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    22 Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as of the Lord.

  • Eph 5:24
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    24 And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.

  • Mark 10:7
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    7 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife;