1 Corinthians 7:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:1 : 1 And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,
  • 1 Cor 7:7 : 7 for 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.
  • 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 7:32 : 32 And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;
  • 1 Cor 7:34-35 : 34 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. 35 And 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,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:24-29
    6 verses
    84%

    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 7:9-17
    9 verses
    83%

    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.

    15And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such `cases', and in peace hath God called us;

    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 7:6-7
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:32-40
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    79%

    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 Cor 7:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    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;

  • Matt 19:9-10
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    74%

    9`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

    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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    72%

    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 7:20
    71%

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

  • 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
    69%

    11and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

  • 1 Tim 5:14
    69%

    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;

  • Matt 22:25-26
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    69%

    25`And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

    26in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh,

  • Titus 1:6
    69%

    6if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

  • 1 Tim 5:16
    69%

    16If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

    8and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

  • Num 30:9
    68%

    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 Tim 3:2
    67%

    2it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

  • Luke 20:34-35
    2 verses
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    34And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,

    35but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;

  • Matt 19:6
    67%

    6so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

  • Heb 13:4
    67%

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

  • Luke 20:29
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    29`There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,

  • 1 Tim 5:3
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    3honour widows who are really widows;