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1 Corinthians 7:28 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you. "

1 Corinthians 7:28

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26 Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is.

27 Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

30 and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;

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Sirach 42:10

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"in her virginity, lest she should be defiled and be with child in her father’s house; when she has a husband, lest she should transgress; and when she is married, lest she should be barren."

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Leviticus 21:14

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"He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife."

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Matthew 5:32

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"but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery."

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Exodus 22:16

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"“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife."

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Deuteronomy 28:30

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"You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit."

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Isaiah 62:5

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"For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you."

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1 Corinthians 7:1

"Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman."

1 Corinthians 7:2

"But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband."

1 Corinthians 7:3

"Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband."

1 Corinthians 7:4

"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."

1 Corinthians 7:5

"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."

1 Corinthians 7:6

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

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