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lont@1Corinthians:7:1 @ Now, concerning the things of which you wrote me: It is good for a man not to marry a woman.

lont@1Corinthians:7:2 @ Nevertheless, on account of uncleanness, let every man have a wife of his own, and let every woman have her own husband.

lont@1Corinthians:7:3 @ Let the husband fulfill his obligations to his wife: and in like manner, also, the wife to the husband.

lont@1Corinthians:7:4 @ The wife has not the command of her own person, but the husband: and in like manner, also, the husband has not the command of his own person, but the wife.

lont@1Corinthians:7:5 @ Deprive not one another, unless, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; and do you come again together, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinency.

lont@1Corinthians:7:6 @ But this which follows I speak as an advice, and not as an injunction,

lont@1Corinthians:7:7 @ that I wish all men to be as I myself am. However, each has a proper gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another after that.

lont@1Corinthians:7:8 @ I say, to the unmarried men, and to the widows, it is good for them if they can remain even as I do.

lont@1Corinthians:7:9 @ Yet, if they can not live continently, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to be in pain.

lont@1Corinthians:7:10 @ Now, those who have married I charge, (yet not I, but the Lord;) let not a wife depart from her husband:

lont@1Corinthians:7:11 @ but if she even depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and a husband must not put away his wife.

lont@1Corinthians:7:12 @ But the rest I command, not the Lord; if any brother have an infidel wife, who herself is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

lont@1Corinthians:7:13 @ And a woman who has an infidel husband, who himself is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away.

lont@1Corinthians:7:14 @ For the infidel husband is sanctified by the wife, and the infidel wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise, certainly, your children were unclean; whereas, indeed, they are holy.

lont@1Corinthians:7:15 @ But if the infidel depart, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not in bondage with such; but God has called us to peace.

lont@1Corinthians:7:16 @ For how do you know, O wife! whether you shall save your husband? And how do you know, O husband! whether you shall save your wife?

lont@1Corinthians:7:17 @ But as God has distributed to every one, and as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk; and so, in all the congregations, I ordain.

lont@1Corinthians:7:18 @ Has any circumcised one been called? Let him not be uncircumcised. Has any one been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

lont@1Corinthians:7:19 @ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

lont@1Corinthians:7:20 @ Let every one remain in the same calling in which he was called.

lont@1Corinthians:7:21 @ Were you called, being a bondman? Be not careful to be made free. Yet, if you can be made free, prefer it.

lont@1Corinthians:7:22 @ For a bondman, who is called by the Lord, is the Lord's freedman. In like manner, also, a freedman who is called, is Christ's bondman.

lont@1Corinthians:7:23 @ You were bought with a price: become not the slaves of men.

lont@1Corinthians:7:24 @ Brethren, in what state each one was called, in that let him remain with God.

lont@1Corinthians:7:25 @ Now, concerning virgins, I have not a commandment of the Lord: but, I give my judgment, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

lont@1Corinthians:7:26 @ I declare this, then, to be good, on account of the present distress; namely, that it is good for a man who is unmarried, to continue so.

lont@1Corinthians:7:27 @ Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

lont@1Corinthians:7:28 @ And yet, if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned: nevertheless, affliction in the flesh such shall have; but I spare you.

lont@1Corinthians:7:29 @ Now, this I say, brethren, the time being short, it remains that both they who have wives, should be as not having wives;

lont@1Corinthians:7:30 @ and they who weep, as not weeping; and they who rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they who buy, as not possessing;

lont@1Corinthians:7:31 @ and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the form of this world passes by.

lont@1Corinthians:7:32 @ Besides, I would have you without anxious care. The unmarried man anxiously cares for the things of the Lord; how he shall please the Lord.

lont@1Corinthians:7:33 @ But he who is married, anxiously cares for the things of the world; how he shall please his wife.

lont@1Corinthians:7:34 @ There is the like difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried woman anxiously cares for the things of the Lord; that she may be holy, both in body and spirit: but she who is married, anxiously cares for the things of the world; how she shall please her husband.

lont@1Corinthians:7:35 @ Now, this I say, for your own benefit; not with a view to lay a snare for you, but for that which is becoming, and best adapted to a steady, uninterrupted adherence to the Lord.

lont@1Corinthians:7:36 @ But if any one thinks he acts improperly toward his virgin, if she be above age, unmarried, and so needs to be married; let him do what she inclines, he does not sin: let such marry.

lont@1Corinthians:7:37 @ But he who stands firm in his heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will; and has determined this in his own heart, to keep his virgin, does well.

lont@1Corinthians:7:38 @ So, then, even he who gives her in marriage, does well; but he who gives her not in marriage, does better.

lont@1Corinthians:7:39 @ A wife is bound, as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she pleases; only in the Lord.

lont@1Corinthians:7:40 @ But she is happier if she continue as she is. This is my opinion; and I think I have the Spirit of God.

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