1Now concerning the things about which you wrote: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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1 Corinthians 7:8, 1 Corinthians 7:8, 1 Corinthians 7:26, 1 Corinthians 7:27, 1 Corinthians 7:26

2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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Ephesians 5:28, Ephesians 5:28, Ephesians 5:33, Ephesians 5:33, 1 Corinthians 7:9

3Let the husband fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

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1 Peter 3:7, 1 Peter 3:7, Exodus 21:10, Exodus 21:10

4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

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Matthew 19:9, Hosea 3:3, Matthew 19:9, Hosea 3:3, Mark 10:11

5Do not deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to prayer, and may be together again, that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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Exodus 19:15, Exodus 19:15, Joel 2:16, Joel 2:16, 1 Samuel 21:4

6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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2 Corinthians 8:8, 2 Corinthians 8:8, 1 Corinthians 7:25, 1 Corinthians 7:25, 1 Corinthians 7:12

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.

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Matthew 19:11, Matthew 19:12, Matthew 19:11, Matthew 19:12, 1 Corinthians 9:5

8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

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1 Corinthians 7:32, 1 Corinthians 7:32, 1 Corinthians 7:34, 1 Corinthians 7:35, 1 Corinthians 7:34

9But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

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1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Timothy 5:14, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Timothy 5:14, 1 Timothy 5:11

10But to the married I command-not I, but the Lord-that the wife not leave her husband

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Matthew 5:32, Matthew 5:32, Luke 16:18, Luke 16:18, Malachi 2:14

11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

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Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:1, 1 Corinthians 7:10, 1 Corinthians 7:10, Judges 19:2

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.

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2 Corinthians 11:17, 2 Corinthians 11:17, 1 Corinthians 7:6, 1 Corinthians 7:6, 1 Corinthians 7:25

13The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

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14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

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Malachi 2:15, Malachi 2:16, Malachi 2:15, Malachi 2:16, Titus 1:15

15Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.

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Romans 14:19, Romans 14:19, 2 Corinthians 13:11, James 3:17, James 3:18

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

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1 Peter 3:1, 1 Peter 3:2, 1 Peter 3:1, 1 Peter 3:2, Romans 11:14

17Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the churches.

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1 Corinthians 4:17, 1 Corinthians 4:17, 1 Corinthians 7:24, Romans 12:3, Romans 12:8

18Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

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Acts 15:5, Acts 15:5, Acts 15:28, Acts 15:19, Acts 15:24

19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

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Galatians 6:15, Galatians 6:15, Galatians 5:6, Galatians 5:6, 1 John 2:3

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

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1 Corinthians 7:17, 1 Corinthians 7:17, 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 1 Thessalonians 4:11, Proverbs 27:8

21Were you called being a bondservant? Do not let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

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Colossians 3:11, 1 Peter 2:18, 1 Peter 2:24, Colossians 3:11, 1 Peter 2:18

22For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

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1 Peter 2:16, 1 Peter 2:16, Philemon 1:16, Philemon 1:16, Colossians 3:22

23You were bought with a price. Do not become bondservants of men.

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1 Corinthians 6:20, 1 Corinthians 6:20, 1 Peter 1:18, 1 Peter 1:19, 1 Peter 1:18

24Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

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1 Corinthians 7:20, 1 Corinthians 7:20, Colossians 3:23, Colossians 3:24, Colossians 3:23

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.

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1 Corinthians 7:6, 1 Corinthians 7:6, 1 Corinthians 4:2, 1 Corinthians 4:2, 1 Corinthians 7:40

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.

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1 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Corinthians 7:8, 1 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Corinthians 7:8, 1 Peter 4:17

27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

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1 Corinthians 7:20, 1 Corinthians 7:12, 1 Corinthians 7:14, 1 Corinthians 7:20, 1 Corinthians 7:12

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.

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Hebrews 13:4, Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 7:32, 1 Corinthians 7:36, 1 Corinthians 7:32

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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1 John 2:17, 1 John 2:17, Romans 13:11, Romans 13:12, 1 Corinthians 7:31

30and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;

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Luke 6:25, Psalms 126:5, Psalms 126:6, Luke 6:21, Ecclesiastes 3:4

31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

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1 John 2:17, 1 John 2:17, 1 Peter 4:7, 1 Peter 4:7, Luke 21:34

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;

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Matthew 6:25, Matthew 6:34, Matthew 6:25, Matthew 6:34, 1 Timothy 5:5

33but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

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1 Peter 3:7, 1 Peter 3:7, Colossians 3:19, Colossians 3:19, Ephesians 5:25

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.

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Luke 10:40, Luke 10:42, Luke 10:40, Luke 10:42, 1 Corinthians 6:20

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.

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1 Corinthians 7:33, 1 Corinthians 7:34, 1 Corinthians 7:33, 1 Corinthians 7:34, 1 Corinthians 7:36

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 does not sin. Let them marry.

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1 Corinthians 7:37, 1 Corinthians 7:9, 1 Corinthians 7:37, 1 Corinthians 7:9, 1 Samuel 2:33

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.

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38So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage does better.

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Hebrews 13:4, Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 7:32, 1 Corinthians 7:34, 1 Corinthians 7:1

39A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

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Romans 7:2, Romans 7:3, Romans 7:2, Romans 7:3, 2 Corinthians 6:14

40But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

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2 Peter 3:15, 2 Peter 3:16, 1 Corinthians 7:25, 1 Corinthians 7:26, 1 Corinthians 7:8