1 Corinthians 7:34

Authorized King James Version (1611)

There 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.

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  • Luke 2:36-37 : 36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; 37 And she [was] a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served [God] with fastings and prayers night and day.
  • Luke 10:40-42 : 40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. 41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, ‹Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:› 42 ‹But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.›
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 ¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 According to my earnest expectation and [my] hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by life, or by death.
  • 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 ¶ And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 [This is] a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
  • 2 Cor 7:11-12 : 11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. 12 ¶ Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, [I did it] not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
  • 2 Cor 8:16 : 16 ¶ But thanks [be] to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 90%

    32 But 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:

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

  • 82%

    35 And 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.

    37 Nevertheless 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.

    38 So 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.

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

  • 76%

    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.

    26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.

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

    28 But 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.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:1-5
    5 verses
    75%

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

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

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

    4 The 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.

    5 Defraud 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.

  • Rom 7:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2 For 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.

    3 So 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 7:7-14
    8 verses
    74%

    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.

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

    9 But 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:

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

    12 But 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.

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

    14 For 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.

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

  • Eph 5:32-33
    2 verses
    71%

    32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

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

  • 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

  • Titus 2:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5 [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

  • 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.

  • Eph 5:28-29
    2 verses
    69%

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

    29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

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

  • 7 And 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.

  • 6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

  • 34 ¶ Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but [they are commanded] to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

  • 7 Likewise, 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.

  • 9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

  • 11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

  • 5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

  • 9 But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

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

  • 22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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

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