1 Corinthians 7:5

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Do 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 19:15 : 15 He said to the people,“Be ready for the third day. Do not approach your wives for marital relations.”
  • 1 Sam 21:4-5 : 4 The priest replied to David,“I don’t have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from relations with women.” 5 David said to the priest,“Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”
  • Joel 2:16 : 16 Gather the people; sanctify an assembly! Gather the elders; gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her private quarters.
  • 1 Thess 3:5 : 5 So when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter somehow tempted you and our toil had proven useless.
  • Zech 12:12-14 : 12 The land will mourn, each clan by itself– the clan of the royal household of David by itself and their wives by themselves; the clan of the family of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves; 13 the clan of the descendants of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; and the clan of the Shimeites by itself and their wives by themselves– 14 all the clans that remain, each separately with their wives.”
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him,“Go away, Satan! For it is written:‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
  • Matt 19:11 : 11 He said to them,“Not everyone can accept this statement, except those to whom it has been given.
  • Zech 7:3 : 3 by asking both the priests of the temple of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies and the prophets,“Should we weep in the fifth month, fasting as we have done over the years?”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:1-4
    4 verses
    85%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:6
    76%

    6I say this as a concession, not as a command.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-19
    5 verses
    74%

    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.”

    17But the one united with the Lord is one spirit with him.

    18Flee sexual immorality!“Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”– but the immoral person sins against his own body.

    19Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

  • 1 Cor 7:9-16
    8 verses
    74%

    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.

    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 7:33-36
    4 verses
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:27-29
    3 verses
    72%

    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 Thess 4:3-5
    3 verses
    71%

    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,

    5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • Eph 5:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Matt 19:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

  • 1 Cor 5:1
    70%

    1Church Discipline It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.

  • Heb 13:4
    70%

    4Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

  • Mark 10:7-9
    3 verses
    69%

    7For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

    8and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

    9Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

  • Num 5:13
    69%

    13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

  • Eph 5:28-29
    2 verses
    69%

    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 5:9
    69%

    9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

  • Rom 7:3
    69%

    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.

  • Matt 5:27
    68%

    27Adultery“You have heard that it was said,‘Do not commit adultery.’

  • 1 Cor 6:13
    68%

    13“Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both.” The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

  • Matt 19:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”

    10The disciples said to him,“If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”

  • 1 Tim 4:3
    68%

    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.

  • Num 5:20
    68%

    20But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”

  • Matt 5:31
    68%

    31Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’

  • 1 Cor 6:8
    67%

    8But you yourselves wrong and cheat, and you do this to your brothers and sisters!