1 Corinthians 7:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if the unbeliever departs, let them depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace.

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  • Rom 14:19 : 19 Therefore let us pursue the things that lead to peace and the building up of one another.
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
  • Jas 2:15 : 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food,
  • Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
  • Matt 12:50 : 50 For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  • Rom 12:18 : 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.

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  • 1 Cor 7:8-14
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    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 7:16-18
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    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.

    18Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-25
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:27-29
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    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,

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    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 7:38-40
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    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.

  • 2 Cor 6:14-15
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    14Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

    15And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has he who believes with an unbeliever?

  • 1 Cor 7:32
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
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    1Now concerning the things you wrote to me about: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:4-6
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    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.

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    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.

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    6But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

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

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    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she has departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

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    17Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.

  • 1 Cor 9:5
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    5Do we not have the right to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

  • 2 Thess 3:15
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    15Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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    15For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever;

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

  • Eph 5:31
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    31For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

  • Matt 5:31
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    31Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce:'

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    6Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

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    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

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    6Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.

  • Exod 21:3
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    3If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he was married, then his wife shall go out with him.

  • Matt 19:10
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    10His disciples said to him, If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.

  • Gal 5:1
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    1Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • 1 Thess 4:7
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    7For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

  • 2 Cor 13:11
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    11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.