1 Corinthians 7:5

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Exod 19:15 : 15 He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman."
  • 1 Sam 21:4-5 : 4 The priest answered David, and said, "There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women." 5 David answered the priest, and said to him, "Truly, women have been kept from us about these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?"
  • Joel 2:16 : 16 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, and the bride out of her room.
  • 1 Thess 3:5 : 5 For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
  • Zech 12:12-14 : 12 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart; 14 all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'"
  • Matt 19:11 : 11 But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.
  • Zech 7:3 : 3 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, "Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?"

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  • 1 Cor 7:1-4
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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.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:15-19
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    15 Don'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!

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

    17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

    18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

    19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

  • 1 Cor 7:9-16
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    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.

    15 Yet 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.

    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?

  • 1 Cor 7:33-36
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    33 but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:27-29
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    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 Thess 4:3-5
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    3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

    4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

    5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

  • Eph 5:31-32
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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.

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    5 and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?'

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    1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

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    4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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

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  • Eph 5:28-29
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    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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    9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

  • Rom 7:3
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    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.

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    27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'

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    13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • Matt 19:9-10
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    9 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

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  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • Num 5:20
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    20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"

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  • 1 Cor 6:8
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    8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.