1 Corinthians 7:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,

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  • 1 Cor 7:8 : 8 And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';
  • 1 Cor 7:26-27 : 26 I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that `it is' good for a man that the matter be thus: -- 27 Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
  • 1 Cor 7:37-38 : 37 And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well; 38 so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.
  • Gen 20:6 : 6 And God saith unto him in the dream, `Yea, I -- I have known that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I withhold thee, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not suffered thee to come against her;
  • Ruth 2:9 : 9 thine eyes `are' on the field which they reap, and thou hast gone after them; have not I charged the young men not to touch thee? when thou art athirst then thou hast gone unto the vessels, and hast drunk from that which the young men draw.'
  • Prov 6:29 : 29 So `is' he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
  • Matt 19:10-11 : 10 His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.' 11 And he said to them, `All do not receive this word, but those to whom it hath been given;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:2-14
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    84%

    2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

    3to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

    4the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

    5Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

    6and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

    7for I wish all men to be even as I myself `am'; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

    8And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';

    9and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

    10and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

    11but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

    12And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

    13and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

    14for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-29
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    24each, in that in which he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God.

    25And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

    26I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that `it is' good for a man that the matter be thus: --

    27Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

    28But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

    29And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

  • 1 Cor 7:32-40
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    32And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

    33and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

    34The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

    35And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

    36and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

    37And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;

    38so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

    39A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

    40and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

  • 1 Thess 4:3-4
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    3for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

    4that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

  • Matt 19:10
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    10His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    2for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

    3so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
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    18flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

  • Col 2:21
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    21-- thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle --

  • Mark 10:7
    69%

    7on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

  • 1 Cor 7:16-17
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    16for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

    17if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    69%

    15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

    16have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

  • 1 Cor 5:9
    69%

    9I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers --

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11but neither `is' a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

  • 1 Cor 7:20
    68%

    20Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain;

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

  • Lev 18:19
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    19`And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

  • Heb 13:4
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    4honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

  • Acts 15:29
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    29to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

  • 1 Cor 11:7
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    7for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,

  • Lev 21:7
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    7`A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he `is' holy to his God;

  • Prov 6:29
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    29So `is' he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.