1Corinthians:7:25-40

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* Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord : yet I give my judgment , as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful . * I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress , I say , that it is good for a man so to be . * Art thou bound unto a wife ? seek not to be loosed . Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife . * 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 flesh : but I spare you . * But this I say , brethren , the time is short : it remaineth , that both they that have wives be as though they had none ; * And they that weep , as though they wept not ; and they that rejoice , as though they rejoiced not ; and they that buy , as though they possessed not ; * And they that use this world , as not abusing it : for the fashion of this world passeth away . * But I would have you without carefulness . He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord , how he may please the Lord : * But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world , how he may please his wife . * 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 spirit : but she that is married careth for the things of the world , how she may please her husband . * And this I speak for your own 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 . * But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin , if she pass the flower of her age , and need so require , let him do what he will , he sinneth not : let them marry . * Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart , having no necessity , but hath power over his own will , and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin , doeth well . * So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well ; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better . * The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth ; but if her husband be dead , she is at liberty to be married to whom she will ; only in the Lord . * But she is happier if she so abide , after my judgment : and I think also that I have the Spirit of God .

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