1 Corinthians 7:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife?

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 11:14 : 14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation [them which are] my flesh, and might save some of them.
  • 1 Cor 9:22 : 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some.
  • 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
  • Jas 5:19-20 : 19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
  • 1 Pet 3:1-2 : 1 ¶ Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation [coupled] with fear.
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 ¶ The fruit of the righteous [is] a tree of life; and he that winneth souls [is] wise.
  • Luke 15:10 : 10 ‹Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.›

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:7-15
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    78%

    7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

    8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

    9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

    10¶ And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:

    11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.

    12But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

    13And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

    15But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us to peace.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-5
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    1¶ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

    4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

  • 1 Cor 7:26-29
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    26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.

    27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

    28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

    29But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

  • Rom 7:1-3
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    1¶ Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

    2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.

    3So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

  • 1 Cor 7:38-40
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    38So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better.

    39¶ The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

    40But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

  • 1 Cor 7:32-36
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    32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

    33But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.

    34There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.

    35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

    36¶ But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

  • 1 Pet 3:7
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    7Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

  • Eph 5:22-25
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    22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

    24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.

    25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

  • 1 Cor 7:17
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    17¶ But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1¶ Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.

    16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

  • Eph 5:32-33
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    32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

  • Eph 5:28
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    28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

  • 1 Cor 7:24
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    24Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

  • 1 Cor 14:36
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    36¶ What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

  • Col 3:18
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    18¶ Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

  • 1 Tim 3:5
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    5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

  • Deut 20:7
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    7And what man [is there] that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • 1 Tim 2:15
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    15Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

  • Mark 10:7
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    7‹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;›

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God.