1 Corinthians 7:17

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Nevertheless, each person should live as the Lord has assigned them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.

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  • 1 Cor 4:17 : 17 For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my concern for all the churches.
  • Rom 12:3-8 : 3 For by the grace given to me, I say to everyone among you not to think of yourselves more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith that God has assigned to each of you. 4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members serve the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophecy, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then do so generously; if it is leading, do it diligently; if it is showing mercy, do it cheerfully.
  • 2 Cor 8:18 : 18 And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his work in spreading the gospel.
  • Matt 19:12 : 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, there are eunuchs who were made that way by others, and there are eunuchs who made themselves that way for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone who can accept this accept it.
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and power forever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 7:7 : 7 I wish that all people were as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
  • 1 Cor 7:18 : 18 Was anyone called after being circumcised? Let him not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.
  • 1 Cor 7:20-21 : 20 Each person should remain in the condition in which they were called. 21 Were you called while a slave? Do not let it trouble you. But if you can gain your freedom, do so.
  • 1 Cor 7:24 : 24 Brothers and sisters, each one should remain with God in the condition they were in when called.
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
  • 1 Cor 16:1 : 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints: just as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:18-22
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    18Was anyone called after being circumcised? Let him not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

    19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what matters.

    20Each person should remain in the condition in which they were called.

    21Were you called while a slave? Do not let it trouble you. But if you can gain your freedom, do so.

    22For the one who was called as a slave in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; in the same way, the one who was called while free is Christ’s slave.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-27
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    82%

    24Brothers and sisters, each one should remain with God in the condition they were in when called.

    25Now concerning virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who, by the Lord’s mercy, is trustworthy.

    26Because of the present distress, I think it is good for a person to remain as they are.

    27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:6-8
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    6I say this as a concession, not as a command.

    7I wish that all people were as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

    8To the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to remain as I am.

  • 1 Cor 7:15-16
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    15But if the unbeliever departs, let them do so. A brother or sister is not bound in such circumstances. God has called us to live in peace.

    16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
    2 verses
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    1Now concerning the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2But because of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:35-40
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    35I am saying this for your benefit, not to restrict you, but so that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.

    36If anyone is worried that he might not be acting honorably toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if his passions are strong and he feels it must be so, let him do as he wants. He is not sinning; they should marry.

    37But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin—this man also does the right thing.

    38So then, the one who marries the virgin does right, but the one who does not marry her does better.

    39A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.

    40Yet in my opinion, she is happier if she remains as she is—and I think that I too have the Spirit of God.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For just as each of us has one body with many members, and not all members serve the same function,

    5so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-12
    3 verses
    70%

    10To the married I give this command—not I, but the Lord: A wife must not separate from her husband.

    11But if she does, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

    12To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.

  • 1 Cor 12:11-12
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    11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and He distributes them to each one just as He wills.

    12Just as the body is one but has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ.

  • 1 Cor 12:18
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    18But now God has arranged the members, each one of them, in the body just as He desired.

  • 1 Pet 4:10-11
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    10Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.

    11If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and power forever and ever. Amen.

  • 1 Cor 3:5
    69%

    5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each.

  • 2 Thess 3:6
    69%

    6Now we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother or sister who is idle and does not live according to the tradition they received from us.

  • 1 Cor 7:32
    68%

    32I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 12:27
    68%

    27Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

  • 1 Cor 11:16
    68%

    16If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

  • 1 Cor 11:2-3
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    2I praise you, brothers and sisters, because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions just as I delivered them to you.

    3But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

  • 1 Cor 12:14
    68%

    14Indeed, the body is not one member but many.

  • 1 Cor 9:14
    68%

    14In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should receive their living from the gospel.

  • 1 Cor 14:37
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    37If anyone considers themselves to be a prophet or spiritually gifted, let them acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are the Lord’s commands.

  • 1 Cor 14:40
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    40But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    67%

    11Nevertheless, in the Lord, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

  • Rom 12:7
    67%

    7if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
    67%

    29This is what I mean, brothers and sisters: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as if they do not.

  • 1 Cor 16:1
    67%

    1Now concerning the collection for the saints: just as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.

  • 1 Thess 4:7
    67%

    7For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
    67%

    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

  • Rom 7:2
    67%

    2For a married woman is legally bound to her husband while he is alive; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him.