NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

1 Corinthians 7:7

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Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

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1 Corinthians 7:4–10

4

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

5

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

6

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

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But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

9

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion.

10

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

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