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1 Corinthians 7:26 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. "
1 Corinthians 7:26
Verse in Context
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Brethren, let ➔ every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
But and if thou marry, thou hast ➔ not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath ➔ not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
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1 Corinthians 7:1
"Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman."
1 Corinthians 7:2
"Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let ➔ every man have his own wife, and let ➔ every woman have her own husband."
1 Corinthians 7:3
"Let ➔ the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband."
1 Corinthians 7:4
"The wife hath ➔ not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath ➔ not power of his own body, but the wife."
1 Corinthians 7:5
"Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that ➔ Satan tempt you not for your incontinency."
1 Corinthians 7:6
"But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment."
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