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1 Corinthians 7:37 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath ➔ so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. "
1 Corinthians 7:37
Verse in Context
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And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath ➔ so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her ➔ not in marriage doeth better.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
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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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