1 Corinthians 7:36
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.
Additional Resources
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- 1 Cor 7:37-404 verses85%
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.
40But 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 7:25-295 verses81%
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;
- 1 Cor 7:8-158 verses79%
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.
15But 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.
- 1 Cor 7:32-354 verses77%
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.
- 1 Cor 7:1-22 verses75%
1Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.
2But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
- Rom 7:2-32 verses73%
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.
- Lev 21:13-142 verses72%
13And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.
14A widow, or one whose husband has put her away, or a common woman of loose behaviour, may not be the wife of a priest; but let him take a virgin from among his people.
- Deut 22:28-292 verses72%
28If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;
29Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.
- 72%
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.
- 72%
23If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her;
- 72%
20But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,
- Exod 22:16-172 verses72%
16If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.
17If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.
- 71%
14And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:
- 71%
11But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married;
- 71%
10The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.
- 71%
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.
- Exod 21:9-102 verses70%
9And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.
10And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.
- 70%
6This is the order of the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: The Lord says, Let them take as their husbands whoever is most pleasing to them, but only among the family of their father's tribe.
- 70%
16But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.
- 70%
3And for his sister, a virgin, for she is his near relation and has had no husband, he may make himself unclean.
- 70%
4Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
- 70%
9Let 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 Cor 7:4-52 verses70%
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.
- 70%
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;
- 70%
6But 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.
- 69%
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.