1 Corinthians 7:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ 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.

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  • 1 Cor 4:17 : 17 ¶ For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
  • Rom 12:3-8 : 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: 5 So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith; 7 Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; 8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, [let him do it] with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
  • 2 Cor 8:18 : 18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise [is] in the gospel throughout all the churches;
  • Matt 19:12 : 12 ‹For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from› [their] ‹mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive› [it], ‹let him receive› [it].
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If any man speak, [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if any man minister, [let him do it] as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 7:7 : 7 For 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.
  • 1 Cor 7:18 : 18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
  • 1 Cor 7:20-21 : 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 21 Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather.
  • 1 Cor 7:24 : 24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
  • 1 Cor 16:1 : 1 ¶ Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

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  • 1 Cor 7:18-22
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    18Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

    19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

    20Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

    21Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather.

    22For he that is called in the Lord, [being] a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Christ's servant.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-27
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    24Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

    25¶ Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

    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.

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    6But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment.

    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.

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    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.

    16For 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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    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.

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    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.

    37Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

    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.

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    4For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

    5So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

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    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.

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    11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

    12¶ For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ.

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    18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

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    10As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

    11If any man speak, [let him speak] as the oracles of God; if any man minister, [let him do it] as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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    5¶ Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

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    6¶ Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

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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:

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    27¶ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

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    16But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

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    2Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered [them] to you.

    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.

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

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    14Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

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    37If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

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    40Let all things be done decently and in order.

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    11Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

  • Rom 12:7
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    7Or ministry, [let us wait] on [our] ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

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

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    7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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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.

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    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.