1 Corinthians 7:6

Webster's Bible (1833)

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
  • 1 Cor 7:12 : 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.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 11:17 : 17 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

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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.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-29
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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.

    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;

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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.

    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.

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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.

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    5Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

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    17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

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

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