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1 Corinthians - ch 7 v 21 - 40
- Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use `it' rather.
- For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.
- Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.
- Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.
- Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.
- I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, `namely,' that it is good for a man to be as he is.
- Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
- But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.
- But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;
- and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;
- and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
- But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
- but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
- and is divided. `So' also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
- And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
- But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin `daughter', if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.
- But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching in his own heart, to keep his own virgin `daughter', shall do well.
- So then both he that giveth his own virgin `daughter' in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.
- A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
- But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
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