1 Corinthians 7:34

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and 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.

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  • Luke 2:36-37 : 36 The Testimony of Anna There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death. 37 She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
  • Luke 10:40-42 : 40 But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said,“Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.” 41 But the Lord answered her,“Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.”
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 Consecration of the Believer’s Life Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice– alive, holy, and pleasing to God– which is your reasonable service. 2 Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God– what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.
  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.
  • 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 Conclusion Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 Summary of the Letter This saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on such truths, so that those who have placed their faith in God may be intent on engaging in good works. These things are good and beneficial for all people.
  • 2 Cor 7:11-12 : 11 For see what this very thing, this sadness as God intended, has produced in you: what eagerness, what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what deep concern, what punishment! In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. 12 So then, even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong, or on account of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you your eagerness on our behalf before God.
  • 2 Cor 8:16 : 16 The Mission of Titus But thanks be to God who put in the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you,
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxious concern for all the churches.

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  • 1 Cor 7:32-33
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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,

  • 1 Cor 7:35-40
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    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 Cor 7:25-29
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    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 7:1-5
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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 7:2-3
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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.

  • 1 Cor 7:7-14
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    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 7:16
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    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?

  • Eph 5:32-33
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    32This mystery is great– but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    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.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

  • Eph 5:28-29
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    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 11:11
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    11In any case, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

  • Deut 20:7
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    7Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

  • Num 30:6
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  • 1 Cor 14:34
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  • 1 Pet 3:7
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    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.

  • 1 Tim 5:9
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    9No widow should be put on the list unless she is at least sixty years old, was the wife of one husband,

  • 1 Tim 5:11
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    11But do not accept younger widows on the list, because their passions may lead them away from Christ and they will desire to marry,

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

  • Num 30:9
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  • 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.”

  • Eph 5:22
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    22Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

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

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