1 Corinthians 7:6

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I say this as a concession, not as a command.

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  • 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.
  • 1 Cor 7:12 : 12 To 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 7:25 : 25 Now concerning virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who, by the Lord’s mercy, is trustworthy.
  • 2 Cor 11:17 : 17 What I am saying, I do not say as from the Lord, but as if in foolishness, with this confidence of boasting.

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  • 1 Cor 7:7-12
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    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.

    9But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

    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 7:24-29
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    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.

    28But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.

    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 7:1-5
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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.

    3The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

    4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

    5Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • 1 Cor 7:35-36
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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.

  • 1 Cor 6:12
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    12All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything.

  • 2 Cor 8:8
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    8I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.

  • 1 Cor 7:17
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    17Nevertheless, 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.

  • Phlm 1:14
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    14But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be out of compulsion but of your own free will.

  • 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.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

  • 1 Cor 9:5-6
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    5Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

    6Or is it only Barnabas and I who lack the right to not work for a living?

  • 1 Cor 16:7
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    7For I do not want to see you now just in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.

  • 1 Cor 10:23
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    23Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible, but not everything builds up.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3They will forbid marriage and require abstinence from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29I do not mean your own conscience, but that of the other person's. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?

  • Rom 7:7
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, 'You shall not covet.'

  • 1 Cor 9:17
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    17If I do this willingly, I have a reward. But if unwillingly, I am simply entrusted with a responsibility.

  • 1 Cor 7:32
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    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 Tim 1:3
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    3Just as I urged you to remain in Ephesus when I went to Macedonia, so that you might command certain people not to teach false doctrines,

  • 1 Cor 7:40
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    40Yet in my opinion, she is happier if she remains as she is—and I think that I too have the Spirit of God.

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13Our desire is not for others to be relieved while you are burdened, but for equality.

  • 1 Cor 9:8
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    8Do I say these things merely from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law also say the same?

  • 1 Cor 9:15
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    15But I have not made use of any of these rights, and I am not writing this to make it happen for me. I would rather die than let anyone deprive me of my reason for boasting.

  • 2 Cor 13:10
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    10This is why I write these things while absent, so that when I come, I may not have to be harsh in my use of the authority that the Lord gave me for building you up, not tearing you down.

  • 1 Cor 7:20
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    20Each person should remain in the condition in which they were called.

  • 2 Cor 10:8
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    8Even if I boast a little more about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

  • Rom 7:16
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    16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

  • 1 Thess 4:2
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    2For you know the commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

  • 1 Cor 11:16
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    16If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

  • 2 Cor 6:3
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    3We give no cause for offense in anything, so that the ministry will not be discredited.

  • 1 Cor 9:12
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    12If others have this right to receive from you, shouldn’t we have it even more? But we have not used this right. Instead, we endure all things so that we will not be a hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

  • Heb 6:3
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    3And we will do this, if God permits.

  • 1 Tim 2:12
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    12I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be quiet.

  • 1 Cor 11:2
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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.