1 Corinthians 7:38

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  • 1 Cor 7:37 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 7:1-2 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 7:8 : 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
  • 1 Cor 7:26 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 7:32-34 : 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; 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:32-37
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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;

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:7-13
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:39-40
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    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 7:25-29
    5 verses
    78%

    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.

    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;

  • 1 Cor 7:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Rom 7:2-3
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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.

    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.

  • 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."

  • Exod 22:16-17
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    16"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

    17If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

  • Exod 21:9-10
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    9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

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

  • Deut 20:7
    71%

    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.

  • Matt 22:25
    70%

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

  • Luke 20:33-35
    3 verses
    69%

    33Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife."

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

    35But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage.

  • Lev 21:13
    69%

    13"'He shall take a wife in her virginity.

  • Deut 24:1
    69%

    1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Prov 18:22
    69%

    22Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor of Yahweh.

  • Deut 7:3
    69%

    3neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.

  • Num 30:16
    69%

    16These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.

  • Num 36:6
    69%

    6This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.

  • Deut 22:28-29
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    28If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

    29then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.

  • Num 36:8
    69%

    8Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    68%

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

  • Luke 16:18
    68%

    18Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

  • Luke 20:29
    68%

    29There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

  • Mark 10:11
    68%

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

  • Matt 5:31
    68%

    31"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'