1 Corinthians 7:7
Good News Translation
Actually I would prefer that all of you were as I am; but each one has a special gift from God, one person this gift, another one that gift.

New Revised Standard Version
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind.

Contemporary English Version
I wish all of you were like me, but God has given different gifts to each of us.

New American Bible
Indeed, I wish everyone to be as I am, but each has a particular gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that.

I would.

1 Corinthians 7:26 I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be.

) the present distress; for it would be perfectly absurd to imagine that an inspired apostle would in the general, discountenance marriage, since it was of the greatest importance to the existence and happiness of future generations, and expressly agreeable to a Divine institution.

1 Corinthians 9:5,15 Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas? . . .

Acts 26:29 And Paul said: I would to God that both in a little and in much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, should become such as I also am, except these bands.

But.

1 Corinthians 12:11 But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

Matthew 19:11,12 Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given. . . .

Context
Principles of Marriage
6But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. 7For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that. 8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.…
Cross References
Matthew 19:11
Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given.

Romans 12:6
And having different gifts, according to the grace that is given us, either prophecy, to be used according to the rule of faith;

1 Corinthians 7:8
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.

1 Corinthians 9:5
Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister as well as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?

1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are diversities of graces, but the same Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12:11
But all these things, one and the same Spirit worketh, dividing to every one according as he will.

1 Corinthians 7:6
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