1 Corinthians 7:14

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For 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.

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  • Mal 2:15-16 : 15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth. 16 “I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel,“and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.”
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
  • Ezra 9:1-2 : 1 A Prayer of Ezra Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said,“The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this unfaithfulness!”
  • Isa 52:1 : 1 Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful clothes, O Jerusalem, holy city! For uncircumcised and unclean pagans will no longer invade you.
  • Acts 10:23 : 23 So Peter invited them in and entertained them as guests.On the next day he got up and set out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
  • Rom 11:16 : 16 If the first portion of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.
  • 1 Cor 6:15-17 : 15 Do 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! 16 Or 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.” 17 But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.
  • 1 Tim 4:5 : 5 For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:10-13
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    86%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:15-16
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    15But if the unbeliever wants a divorce, let it take place. In these circumstances the brother or sister is not bound. God has called you in peace.

    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?

  • 1 Cor 7:1-5
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    1Celibacy 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.”

    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.

  • Rom 7:2-4
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    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.

    4So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:32-36
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    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.

  • 2 Cor 6:14-15
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    14Unequal Partners Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

    15And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share in common with an unbeliever?

  • Eph 5:24-29
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    24But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

    25Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

    26to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word,

    27so that he may present the church to himself as glorious– not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

    28In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

    29For no one has ever hated his own body, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church,

  • 1 Cor 7:38-40
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    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 4:7
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    7For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

  • 1 Cor 7:27-29
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    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 Pet 3:7
    69%

    7Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.

  • Eph 5:31-32
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    31For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

    32This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

  • Mark 10:7
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    7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

  • Titus 1:6
    69%

    6An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

  • 1 Cor 7:8
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    8To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
    68%

    1Wives and Husbands In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live,

  • 2 Cor 7:1
    68%

    1Self-Purification Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
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    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.”

  • Heb 13:4
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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.

  • 1 Tim 4:5
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    5For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.

  • Eph 5:22
    68%

    22Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

  • Num 30:14
    67%

    14But if her husband remains completely silent about her from day to day, he thus confirms all her vows or all her obligations which she is under; he confirms them because he remained silent about her when he heard them.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    67%

    5For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

  • Titus 2:5
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    5to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

  • Num 30:7
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    7and her husband hears about it, but remains silent about her when he hears about it, then her vows will stand and her obligations which she has pledged for herself will stand.