1 Corinthians 7:33

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Sam 1:4-8 : 4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb. 6 Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb. 7 [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. 2 For there were that said, "We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live." 3 Some also there were that said, "We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine." 4 There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral. 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards."
  • Luke 12:22 : 22 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
  • 1 Cor 7:3 : 3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
  • Eph 5:25-33 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. 29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; 30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones. 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." 32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  • Col 3:19 : 19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.
  • 1 Thess 4:11-12 : 11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; 12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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  • 1 Cor 7:34-40
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    34 There 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.

    35 This 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.

    36 But 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.

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

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

    39 A 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.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:31-32
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    31 and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

    32 But 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 7:25-29
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    25 Now 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.

    26 I 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.

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

    28 But 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.

    29 But 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 7:1-5
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    1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

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

    4 The 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.

    5 Don'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.

  • Eph 5:31-33
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    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."

    32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

    33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:7-14
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    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.

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

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

    10 But 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.

    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.

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

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    2 For 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.

    3 So 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.

  • Eph 5:27-29
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    27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

    28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

    29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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    5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

  • Eph 5:22-25
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    22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

    23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

    24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

    25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

  • Mark 10:7
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    7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

  • Deut 20:7
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    7 What 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."

  • Luke 20:34
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    34 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

  • 1 Pet 3:7
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    7 You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

  • Col 3:19
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    19 Husbands, love your wives, and don't be bitter against them.

  • Deut 24:5
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    5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

  • Exod 21:10
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    10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

  • Titus 2:5
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    5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

  • 1 Tim 3:2
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    2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;