1 Corinthians 7:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

But 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.

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  • 1 Cor 4:17 : 17 For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved son and faithful in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.
  • Rom 12:3-8 : 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to each one the measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function: 5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one 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 attend to our ministering: or he who teaches, on teaching; 8 Or he who exhorts, on exhortation: he who gives, let him do it with simplicity; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows 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 eunuchs who were born thus from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 As every person has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if anyone serves, let him do so with the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 7:7 : 7 For 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.
  • 1 Cor 7:18 : 18 Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.
  • 1 Cor 7:20-21 : 20 Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called. 21 Were you called while a servant? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it.
  • 1 Cor 7:24 : 24 Brethren, let each one remain with God in the state in which he was called.
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
  • 1 Cor 16:1 : 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have instructed the churches of Galatia, so you must do as well.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:18-22
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    18Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

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

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

    21Were you called while a servant? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it.

    22For he who is called in the Lord while a servant is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, he who is called while free is Christ's servant.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-27
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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.

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:6-8
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:15-16
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    15But 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.

    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?

  • 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 7:35-40
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    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.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For as we have many members in one body, and all members do not have the same function:

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

  • 1 Cor 7:10-12
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 12:11-12
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    11But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

    12For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

  • 1 Cor 12:18
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    18But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body as He pleased.

  • 1 Pet 4:10-11
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    10As every person has received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

    11If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if anyone serves, let him do so with the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

  • 1 Cor 3:5
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    5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

  • 2 Thess 3:6
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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.

  • 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 12:27
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    27Now you are the body of Christ and members individually.

  • 1 Cor 11:16
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    16But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

  • 1 Cor 11:2-3
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    2Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I delivered them to you.

    3But I want you to 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.

  • 1 Cor 12:14
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    14For the body is not one member, but many.

  • 1 Cor 9:14
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    14Even so the Lord has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

  • 1 Cor 14:37
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    37If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 14:40
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    40Let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

  • Rom 12:7
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    7Or ministry, let us attend to our ministering: or he who teaches, on teaching;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    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 16:1
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    1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have instructed the churches of Galatia, so you must do as well.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    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.

  • Rom 7:2
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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.