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geneva@1Corinthians:7:1 @ Now (note:)He teaches concerning marriage that although a single life has its advantages, which he will declare afterwards, yet that marriage is necessary for the avoiding of fornication. But so that neither one man may have many wives, nor any wife many husbands.(:note) concerning the things Concerning those matters about which you wrote to me. whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] Commodious, and (as we say) expedient. For marriage brings many griefs with it, and that by reason of the corruption of our first estate. good for a man not to touch a woman.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:2 @ Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

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geneva@1Corinthians:7:5 @ Defraud ye not one the other, (note:)He adds an exception: unless the one abstain from the other by mutual consent, that they may the better give themselves to prayer, in which nonetheless he warns them to consider what is expedient, lest by this long breaking off as it were from marriage, they are stirred up to incontinency.(:note) except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may Do nothing else. give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

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geneva@1Corinthians:7:7 @ For I (note:)I wish.(:note) would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

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geneva@1Corinthians:7:9 @ But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to (note:)So to burn with lust, that either the will yields to the temptation, or else we cannot call upon God with a peaceful conscience.(:note) burn.

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geneva@1Corinthians:7:11 @ But and if shee depart, let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled vnto her husband, & let not the husband put away his wife.

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geneva@1Corinthians:7:13 @ And the woman which hath an husbande that beleeueth not, if he be content to dwell with her, let her not forsake him.

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geneva@1Corinthians:7:16 @ For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt saue thine husband? Or what knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt saue thy wife?

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geneva@1Corinthians:7:19 @ Circumcision is nothing, and vncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandements of God.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:20 @ Let euery man abide in the same vocation wherein he was called.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:21 @ Art thou called [being] a servant? (note:)As though this calling were too unworthy a calling for Christ.(:note) care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:22 @ For he that is called in the (note:)He that is in the state of a servant, and is called to be a Christian.(:note) Lord, [being] a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Christ's servant.

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geneva@1Corinthians:7:26 @ I suppose therefore that (note:)To remain a virgin.(:note) this is good for the For the necessity which the saints are daily subject to, who are continually tossed up and down, so that their estate may seem most unfit for marriage, were it not that the weakness of the flesh forced them to it. present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:27 @ Art thou bounde vnto a wife? Seeke not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? Seeke not a wife.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:28 @ But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the (note:)By the «flesh» he understands whatever things belong to this present life, for marriage brings with it many problems. So that he leans more to a single life, not because it is a service more agreeable to God than marriage is, but for those problems which (if it were possible) he would wish all men to be avoid, so that they might give themselves to God alone.(:note) flesh: but I I would your weakness were provided for. spare you.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:29 @ But this I say, brethren, the time [is] (note:)For we are now in the latter end of the world.(:note) short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

geneva@1Corinthians:7:30 @ And they that (note:)By «weeping» the Hebrews understand all adversity, and by «joy», all prosperity.(:note) weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

geneva@1Corinthians:7:31 @ And they that use this (note:)Those things which God gives us here.(:note) world, as not abusing [it]: for the The guise, and shape, and fashion: by which he shows us that there is nothing in this world that continues. fashion of this world passeth away.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:32 @ And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:33 @ But he that is married (note:)Those that are married have their minds drawn here and there, and therefore if any man has the gift of continency, it is more advantageous for him to live alone. But those who are married may care for the things of the Lord also. Clement, Strom. 3.(:note) careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:34 @ There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in (note:)Mind.(:note) spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:35 @ And this I speak for your own (note:)He means that he will force no man either to marry or not to marry, but to show them plainly what type of life is most advantageous.(:note) profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

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geneva@1Corinthians:7:37 @ Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his (note:)Resolved himself.(:note) heart, having no That the weakness of his daughter does not force him, or any other matter, that that he may safely still keep her a virgin. necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

geneva@1Corinthians:7:38 @ So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth (note:)Provides better for his children, and that not in just any way, but by reason of such conditions as are mentioned before.(:note) better.

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geneva@1Corinthians:7:40 @ But shee is more blessed, if she so abide, in my iudgement: and I thinke that I haue also the Spirite of God.

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