1 Corinthians 7:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

Now concerning the things you wrote to me about: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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  • 1 Cor 7:8 : 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
  • 1 Cor 7:26-27 : 26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
  • 1 Cor 7:37-38 : 37 Nevertheless, he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well. 38 So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.
  • Gen 20:6 : 6 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also kept you from sinning against me: therefore I did not let you touch her.
  • Ruth 2:9 : 9 Let your eyes be on the field that they do reap, and follow after them. Have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink from what the young men have drawn.
  • Prov 6:29 : 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.
  • Matt 19:10-11 : 10 His disciples said to him, If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry. 11 But he said to them, All cannot receive this saying, except those to whom it has been given.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:2-14
    13 verses
    84%

    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband give to the wife her due affection, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

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

    5Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

    6But I speak this by permission, and not as a command.

    7For I wish that all men were as I am. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

    8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

    9But if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

    10And to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not leave her husband:

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

    12But to the rest I speak, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.

    13And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, and he is willing to live 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; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-29
    6 verses
    78%

    24Brethren, let each one remain with God in the state in which he was called.

    25Now concerning virgins: I have no command from the Lord, yet I give my judgment as one whom the Lord in his mercy has made trustworthy.

    26I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

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

    28But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

    29But this I say, brethren, the time is short; so that from now on, even those who have wives should be as though they had none,

  • 1 Cor 7:32-40
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    75%

    32But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

    33But he who is married cares about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    34There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

    35And this I say for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.

    36But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he will. He does not sin; let them marry.

    37Nevertheless, he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.

    38So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.

    39A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

    40But she is happier if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

  • 1 Thess 4:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

    4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

  • Matt 19:10
    71%

    10His disciples said to him, If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    70%

    2For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is released from the law of her husband.

    3So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she will be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she is married to another man.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
    70%

    18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

  • Col 2:21
    70%

    21"Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,"

  • Mark 10:7
    69%

    7For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

  • 1 Cor 7:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

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

    17But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 5:9
    69%

    9I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    69%

    11Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 7:20
    68%

    20Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • Lev 18:19
    68%

    19Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

  • Heb 13:4
    68%

    4Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

  • Acts 15:29
    68%

    29that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

  • 1 Cor 11:7
    68%

    7For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

  • Lev 21:7
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    7They shall not take a wife who is a whore, or profane; nor shall they take a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

  • Prov 6:29
    68%

    29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.