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1 Corinthians 7 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:1 - Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:2 - Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:3 - Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:4 - The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:5 - Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:6 - But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:7 - For I 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:8 - I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:9 - But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:10 - And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:11 - But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:12 - But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:13 - And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:14 - For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:15 - But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:16 - For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:17 - But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:18 - Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:19 - Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:20 - Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:21 - Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:22 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:23 - Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:24 - Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:25 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:26 - I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:27 - Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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 flesh: but I spare you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:29 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:30 - 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;
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:31 - And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:32 - 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:
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:33 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 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 spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:35 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:36 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:37 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:38 - So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:39 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 7:40 - 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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