1 Corinthians 7:27

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Cor 7:12-14 : 12 But 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. 13 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
  • 1 Cor 7:20 : 20 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:28-29
    2 verses
    84%

    28But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

    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;

  • Rom 7:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1Or don't you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

    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.

    3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

    4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-26
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:32-40
    9 verses
    79%

    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;

    33but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    34There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please her husband.

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:7-17
    11 verses
    79%

    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.

    9But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

    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.

    13The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

    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?

    17Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    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.

    3Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

    4The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

    5Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • Matt 19:10
    73%

    10His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

  • Deut 20:7
    73%

    7What man is there who has pledged to be married a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her."

  • 1 Cor 7:20-22
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Mark 10:7-9
    3 verses
    71%

    7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

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

    9What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.

  • Matt 19:6
    70%

    6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

  • 1 Cor 6:16
    69%

    16Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

  • Matt 22:25
    69%

    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.

  • Mark 10:11
    68%

    11He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

  • Eph 5:31
    68%

    31"For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."

  • Lev 21:7
    68%

    7"'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.