1 Corinthians 7:17

World English Bible (2000)

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

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  • 1 Cor 4:17 : 17 Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.
  • Rom 12:3-8 : 3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith. 4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function, 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; 7 or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching; 8 or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
  • 2 Cor 8:18 : 18 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies.
  • Matt 19:12 : 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who 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 each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 7:7 : 7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
  • 1 Cor 7:18 : 18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
  • 1 Cor 7:20-21 : 20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. 21 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
  • 1 Cor 7:24 : 24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,
  • 1 Cor 16:1 : 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

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  • 1 Cor 7:18-22
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    18Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

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

    20Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

    21Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

    22For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-27
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    24Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

    25Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

    26I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

    27Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:6-8
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    6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

    7Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

    8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

  • 1 Cor 7:15-16
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    15Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

    16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
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    1Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:35-40
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    35This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

    36But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

    37But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

    38So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.

    39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

    40But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

    5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-12
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    10But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

    11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

    12But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

  • 1 Cor 12:11-12
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    11But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

    12For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the 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, just as he desired.

  • 1 Pet 4:10-11
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    10As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

    11If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

  • 1 Cor 3:5
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    5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

  • 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 in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

  • 1 Cor 7:32
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    32But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned 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 any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.

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

    3But I would have you 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 ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

  • 1 Cor 14:37
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    37If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment 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 woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

  • Rom 12:7
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    7or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

  • 1 Thess 4:7
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    7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

  • Rom 7:2
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    2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.