1 Corinthians 7:1
Celibacy and Marriage Now with regard to the issues you wrote about:“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
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- 1 Cor 7:8 : 8 To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.
- 1 Cor 7:26-27 : 26 Because of the impending crisis I think it best for you to remain as you are. 27 The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.
- 1 Cor 7:37-38 : 37 But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well. 38 So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.
- Gen 20:6 : 6 Then in the dream God replied to him,“Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.
- Ruth 2:9 : 9 Take note of the field where the men are harvesting and follow behind with the female workers. I will tell the men to leave you alone. When you are thirsty, you may go to the water jars and drink some of the water the servants draw.”
- Prov 6:29 : 29 So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
- Matt 19:10-11 : 10 The disciples said to him,“If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!” 11 He said to them,“Not everyone can accept this statement, except those to whom it has been given.
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- 1 Cor 7:2-1413 verses84%
2But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.
3A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.
4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.
5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6I say this as a concession, not as a command.
7I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.
8To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.
9But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.
10To the married I give this command– not I, but the Lord– a wife should not divorce a husband
11(but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.
12To the rest I say– I, not the Lord– if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her.
13And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer and he is happy to live with her, she should not divorce him.
14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified because of the wife, and the unbelieving wife because of her husband. Otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
- 1 Cor 7:24-296 verses78%
24In whatever situation someone was called, brothers and sisters, let him remain in it with God.
25Remaining Unmarried With regard to the question about people who have never married, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.
26Because of the impending crisis I think it best for you to remain as you are.
27The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.
28But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.
29And I say this, brothers and sisters: The time is short. So then those who have wives should be as those who have none,
- 1 Cor 7:32-409 verses75%
32And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.
33But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,
34and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.
35I am saying this for your benefit, not to place a limitation on you, but so that without distraction you may give notable and constant service to the Lord.
36If anyone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the bloom of youth and it seems necessary, he should do what he wishes; he does not sin. Let them marry.
37But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.
38So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.
39A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes(only someone in the Lord).
40But in my opinion, she will be happier if she remains as she is– and I think that I too have the Spirit of God!
- 1 Thess 4:3-42 verses71%
3For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,
4that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,
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10The disciples said to him,“If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”
- Rom 7:2-32 verses70%
2For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.
3So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.
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18Flee sexual immorality!“Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”– but the immoral person sins against his own body.
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21“Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”
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7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,
- 1 Cor 7:16-172 verses69%
16For how do you know, wife, whether you will bring your husband to salvation? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will bring your wife to salvation?
17The Circumstances of Your Calling Nevertheless, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each person, so must he live. I give this sort of direction in all the churches.
- 1 Cor 6:15-162 verses69%
15Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
16Or do you not know that anyone who is united with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said,“The two will become one flesh.”
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9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
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11In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
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20Let each one remain in that situation in life in which he was called.
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3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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19“‘You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual relations with her.
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4Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
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29that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.
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7For a man should not have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.
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7They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
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29So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.