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1 Corinthians 7

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1Now concerning the things whereof you2f wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.
2Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3Let the husband render unto the wife sexual dues: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4The wife has not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife.
5Defraud you2f not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that you2f may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan [the adversary] tempt you not for your incontinency.
6But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment.
7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper (one’s own; peculiar; particular) gift of God-The Father, one after this manner, and another after that.
8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord - Kurios, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:
11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.
12But to the rest speak I, not the Lord - Kurios: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13And the woman which has an husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
14For 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.
15But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God-The Father has called us to peace.
16For what know youi, O wife, whether youi shall save [youri] husband? or how know youi, O man, whether youi shall save [youri] wife?
17But as God-The Father has distributed to every man, as the Lord - Kurios has called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
18Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but [the important thing is] the keeping of the commandments of God-The Father.
20Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
21Are youi called [being] a slave? care not for it: but if youi may be made free, use [it] rather.
22For he that is called in the Lord - Kurios, [being] a slave, is the Lord - Kurios’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, [being] free, is Moshiach [Messiah]’s slave.
23You2f are bought with a price; be not you2f the servants of men.
24Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, in it abide with God-The Father.
25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord - Kurios: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord - Kurios to be faithful.
26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.
27Are youi bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are youi loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28But and if youi marry, youi have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
29But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
30And 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;
31And they that use this world, as not abusing [it]: for the fashion of this world passes away.
32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord - Kurios, how he may please the Lord - Kurios:
33But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.
34There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord - Kurios, that she may be holy both in body and in Spirit [Ruach]: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.
35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely (attractive; proper (one’s own; peculiar; particular); becoming), and that you2f may attend upon the Lord - Kurios without distraction.
36But if any man think that he behaves himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them marry.
37Nevertheless he that stands stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.
38So then he that gives [her] in marriage does well; but he that gives [her] not in marriage does better.
39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord - Kurios.
40But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit [Ruach] of God-The Father.

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