1 Corinthians 7:1-19 (New American Standard)
View In My BibleTeaching on Marriage
1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is 1good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. 3 The husband must afulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 2Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and bcome together again so that 3Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But this I say by way of concession, 4not of command. 7 cYet I wish that all men were 5even as I myself am. However, 6each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that. 8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is 7good for them if they remain 8even as I. 9 But if they do not have self-control, 9let them marry ; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. 10 But to the married I give instructions, 10not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not dleave her husband 11 (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband ), and that the husband should not edivorce his wife. 12 But to the rest 11I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not fdivorce her. 13 And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not gsend her husband away. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through hher believing husband ; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are 12holy. 15 Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave ; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called ius j13to peace. 16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will 14save your husband ? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife ? 17 Only , 15as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this manner let him walk. And 16so I direct in 17all the churches. 18 Was any man called when he was already circumcised ? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision ? 18He is not to be circumcised. 19 19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is 20the keeping of the commandments of God.New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. All rights reserved. (New American Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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