1 Corinthians 7:34

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

The 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.

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  • Luke 2:36-37 : 36 And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity, 37 and she `is' a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,
  • Luke 10:40-42 : 40 and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, `Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.' 41 And Jesus answering said to her, `Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things, 42 but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service; 2 and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • Phil 1:20 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,
  • 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 1 Tim 3:5 : 5 (and if any one his own house `how' to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 Stedfast `is' the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,
  • 2 Cor 7:11-12 : 11 for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter. 12 If, then, I also wrote to you -- not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God --
  • 2 Cor 8:16 : 16 And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 apart from the things without -- the crowding upon me that is daily -- the care of all the assemblies.

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  • 1 Cor 7:32-33
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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.

  • 1 Cor 7:35-40
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    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 Cor 7:25-29
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    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 7:1-5
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    1And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,

    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;

  • 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 7:7-14
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    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 7:16
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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?

  • Eph 5:32-33
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    32this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

    33but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children,

    5sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

  • Eph 5:28-29
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    28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

    29for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

  • 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,

  • Deut 20:7
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    7`And who `is' the man that hath betrothed a woman, and hath not taken her? -- let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.

  • Num 30:6
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    6`And if she be at all to a husband, and her vows `are' on her, or a wrongful utterance `on' her lips, which she hath bound on her soul,

  • 1 Cor 14:34
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    34Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

  • 1 Pet 3:7
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    7The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

  • 1 Tim 5:9
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    9A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

  • 1 Tim 5:11
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    11and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

  • Num 30:9
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    9`As to the vow of a widow or cast-out woman, all that she hath bound on her soul is established on her.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
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    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.'

  • Eph 5:22
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    22The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

  • Eph 5:24
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    24but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.

  • Mark 10:7
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    7on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,