1 Corinthians 7

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1 And what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 But, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband; likewise the husband does not have authority over her own body, but the wife.
5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time for fasting and prayer, and [then] come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7 For I would that all men were as I am; but each has his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 The unmarried and the widows I say: it is good to stay as I am.
9 But if not [may] contain, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

10 And the married not I command, but the Lord, Let not the wife with her husband -
eleven if the divorce, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband --and husband should not divorce his wife [her].
12 The rest I say, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, let him not leave her;
13 And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, let her not leave him.
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife veruyuscheyu, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
15 But if the unbelieving [wants] leaves, let him leave; brother or sister in such [cases] are not related; to the world God has called us.
16 Why do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or you, husband, why you know whether you will save your wife?

17 Only one do as God has defined him, and each as the Lord has called. So I command in all the churches.
18 anyone circumcised called; Does anyone not become uncircumcised called.
19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but [all] in keeping the commandments of God.
20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21 Have you called while a slave is not dismayed; but if thou mayest be made free, use it.
22 For the slave called in the Lord, there is the Lord's freeman; still called while free is Christ's servant.
23 You bought [road] with a price; do not become slaves of men.
24 What [rank] he is called, brethren, let every abide with God.

25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy to be [His] right.
26 At present distress I acknowledge that good for a man so to be.
27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek a divorce. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28 However, if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. But such will have trouble in the flesh; and I feel sorry for you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that those who have wives should be as not having;
thirty and those who mourn as though they wept not; and those who rejoice as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy as though they possessed not;
31 and use this world, as not abusing it; because the image of this world passes.
32 And I want you to be without care. Unmarried man is anxious about the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
33 and married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife. There is a difference between the wife and a virgin
34 unmarried cares for the Lord, how to please the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit; and married anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband.
35 I say this for your own sake, not in order to impose on you to bond, but to you decently and continually [served] the Lord without distraction.

36 If anyone unseemly for her girls that she, being in middle age, and need so require, let him do what he does not sin; let [those] marry.
37 But who stands steadfast in his heart, not being shy of necessity, but hath power over his own will, decided in his heart, will keep his virgin, doeth well.
38 Therefore, issuing her in marriage doeth well; instead of issuing does better.

39 The wife is bound as long as her husband liveth; But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment; and I think that I have the Spirit of God.

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