Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
good.
1 Corinthians 7:8,26,27,37,38 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them …
Matthew 19:10,11 His disciples say to him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, …
touch.
Genesis 20:6 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in …
Ruth 2:9 Let your eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go you after …
Proverbs 6:29 So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall …
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
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.
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.
except.
Exodus 19:15 And he said to the people, Be ready against the third day: come not …
1 Samuel 21:4,5 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread …
Joel 2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, …
Zechariah 7:3 And to speak to the priests which were in the house of the LORD of …
Zechariah 12:12-14 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house …
that Satan.
Matthew 19:11 But he said to them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they …
1 Thessalonians 3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your …
But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
I would. Said. Paul evidently gave this advice in reference to the necessities of the church, or what he calls (ver.
1 Corinthians 7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I …
1 Corinthians 9:5,15 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other …
Acts 26:29 And Paul said, I would to God, that not only you, but also all that …
But.
1 Corinthians 12:11 But all these works that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to …
Matthew 19:11,12 But he said to them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they …
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
yet.
1 Corinthians 7:12,25,40 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife …
Let.
1 Corinthians 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister …
Jeremiah 3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have …
Malachi 2:14-16 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and …
Matthew 5:32 But I say to you, That whoever shall put away his wife, saving for …
Matthew 19:6-9 Why they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined …
Mark 10:11,12 And he said to them, Whoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, …
Luke 16:18 Whoever puts away his wife, and marries another, commits adultery…
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
or.
Judges 19:2,3 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from …
Jeremiah 3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become …
and let.
Deuteronomy 22:19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give …
Isaiah 50:1 Thus said the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom …
Mark 10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a …
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
the unbelieving husband.
1 Corinthians 6:15-17 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I …
Ezra 9:1,2 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, …
1 Timothy 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Titus 1:15 To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and …
else.
Ezra 9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons…
Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful …
Malachi 2:15,16 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And …
Acts 10:23 Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter …
Romans 11:16 For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the …
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
A brother.
Matthew 12:50 For whoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the …
James 2:15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
but.
1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches …
Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.
Romans 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and …
2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brothers, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of …
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, …
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall …
James 3:17,18 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, …
to peace. Gr. in peace.
For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
O wife.
1 Corinthians 9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made …
Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that wins souls is wise.
Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels …
1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to yourself, and to the doctrine; continue in them: for …
James 5:19,20 Brothers, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him…
1 Peter 3:1,2 Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, …
how. Gr. what.
But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
as God.
1 Corinthians 7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has …
Matthew 19:12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's …
Romans 12:3-8 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is among …
1 Peter 4:10,11 As every man has received the gift, even so minister the same one …
as the.
1 Corinthians 7:18,20,21,24 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. …
so ordain.
1 Corinthians 4:17 For this cause have I sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, …
1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order …
2 Corinthians 11:28 Beside those things that are without, that which comes on me daily, …
Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
Circumcision.
1 Corinthians 8:8 But meat commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the …
Romans 2:25-29 For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the law: but if you be …
Romans 3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, …
Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; …
Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision, …
but.
1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings …
Jeremiah 7:22,23 For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that …
Matthew 5:19 Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and …
John 15:14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
1 John 2:3,4 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments…
1 John 3:22-24 And whatever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, …
1 John 5:2,3 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, …
Revelation 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right …
Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
being.
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be …
Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there …
Colossians 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, …
1 Timothy 6:1-3 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters …
1 Peter 2:18-24 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the …
a servant. Rather, a slave, [doulos,] the property of another, and bought with his money. In these verses the apostle shows that Christianity makes no change in our civil connections.
care.
Luke 10:40,41 But Martha was encumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord…
Luke 12:29 And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, neither …
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …
Philippians 4:6,11 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication …
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with …
1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care on him; for he cares for you.
For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
is the.
Luke 1:74,75 That he would grant to us, that we being delivered out of the hand …
John 8:32-36 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free…
Romans 6:18-22 Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness…
Galatians 5:1,13 Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us …
Ephesians 6:5,6 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to …
Colossians 3:22-24 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; …
Philemon 1:16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially …
1 Peter 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, …
freeman. Gr. made free. is Christ's.
1 Corinthians 9:19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant …
Psalm 116:16 O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of …
Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated …
Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for …
Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always …
1 Peter 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, …
2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ…
Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them …
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
are.
1 Corinthians 6:20 For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, …
Leviticus 25:42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of …
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the …
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, …
1 Peter 1:18,19 For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible …
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, …
Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, …
be.
Matthew 23:8-11 But be not you called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; …
Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brothers unawares brought in, who came …
Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
let.
1 Corinthians 7:17,20 But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every …
abide.
1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to …
Genesis 5:22-24 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred …
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to …
1 Samuel 14:45 And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this …
Colossians 3:23,24 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men…
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.
concerning.
1 Corinthians 7:28,34,36-38 But and if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, …
Psalm 78:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
virgins. The word [parthenos,] as well as the Latin virgo, 'a virgin,' though it generally signifies a maid, frequently denotes unmarried persons of both sexes; in which sense it is evidently used here by the apostle.
have.
1 Corinthians 7:6,10,12,40 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment…
2 Corinthians 8:8-10 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of …
2 Corinthians 11:17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were …
obtained.
1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed …
2 Corinthians 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of …
2 Corinthians 4:1,2 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, …
1 Timothy 1:12-16 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for that he …
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
that.
1 Corinthians 7:1,8,28,35-38 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for …
Jeremiah 16:2-4 You shall not take you a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters …
Matthew 24:19 And woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Luke 21:23 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck, …
Luke 23:28,29 But Jesus turning to them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not …
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: …
distress. or, necessity.
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.
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
the time.
Job 14:1,2 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble…
Psalm 39:4-7 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it …
Psalm 90:5-10 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the …
Psalm 103:15,16 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes…
Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of …
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there …
Romans 13:11,12 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out …
Hebrews 13:13,14 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp, bearing his reproach…
1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and …
2 Peter 3:8,9 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is …
1 John 2:17 And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does …
that both.
Ecclesiastes 12:7,8,13,14 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit …
Isaiah 24:1,2 Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns …
Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is …
James 4:13-16 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such …
1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower …
And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
that weep.
Psalm 30:5 For his anger endures but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping …
Psalm 126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy…
Ecclesiastes 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away …
Isaiah 30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no …
Luke 6:21,25 Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed …
Luke 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received …
John 16:22 And you now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and …
Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the middle of the throne shall feed them, …
Revelation 18:7 How much she has glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much …
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
use.
1 Corinthians 9:18 What is my reward then? Truly that, when I preach the gospel, I may …
Ecclesiastes 2:24,25 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, …
Ecclesiastes 3:12,13 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and …
Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat …
Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a …
Ecclesiastes 11:2,9,10 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what …
Matthew 24:48-50 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays …
Matthew 25:14-29 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, …
Luke 12:15-21 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness…
Luke 16:1,2 And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, …
Luke 19:17-26 And he said to him, Well, you good servant: because you have been …
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …
1 Timothy 6:17,18 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, …
James 5:1-5 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall …
for.
Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted …
Psalm 73:20 As a dream when one wakes; so, O Lord, when you wake, you shall despise …
Ecclesiastes 1:4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the …
James 1:10,11 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the …
James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your …
1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower …
1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be you therefore sober, and …
1 John 2:17 And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does …
the fashion. [To schema,] the form or appearance. Grotius remarks that the apostle's expression is borrowed from the theatre, where [to schema tes skenes paragei] means that the scene changes, and presents an appearance entirely new.
But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
careth.
Nehemiah 5:1-5 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against …
Luke 12:22 And he said to his disciples, Therefore I say to you, Take no thought …
1 Thessalonians 4:11,12 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and …
1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his …
how.
1 Corinthians 7:3 Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise …
1 Samuel 1:4-8 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his …
Ephesians 5:25-33 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, …
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving …
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
careth.
Luke 2:36,37 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of …
2 Corinthians 7:11,12 For behold this selfsame thing, that you sorrowed after a godly sort, …
2 Corinthians 8:16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart …
2 Corinthians 11:28 Beside those things that are without, that which comes on me daily, …
1 Timothy 3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take …
Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that you affirm constantly…
both.
1 Corinthians 6:20 For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, …
Romans 6:13 Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness …
Romans 12:1,2 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you …
Philippians 1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing …
1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly…
she that.
Luke 10:40-42 But Martha was encumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord…
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.
not. This is an allusion to the Retiarius among the Romans, who carried a small casting net, rete, which he endeavoured to throw over his adversary's head.
1 Corinthians 7:2,5-9,28,36 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, …
Matthew 19:12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's …
comely.
1 Corinthians 7:36 But if any man think that he behaves himself uncomely toward his …
Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not …
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are …
1 Timothy 1:10 For fornicators, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for …
Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, …
and that.
1 Corinthians 7:33,34 But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, …
Luke 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have …
Luke 10:40-42 But Martha was encumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord…
Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged …
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.
his virgin. Some interpret this of a man's continuing in a state of celibacy, and render [parthenos,] not a virgin, but virginity; but such a construction of the original appears without example. It appears most obvious to explain it of a parent, or guardian, who had the charge of a virgin; and Kypke has shown that [ten parthenon autou] is an elegant phrase for his virgin daughter.
the flower.
1 Samuel 2:33 And the man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall …
and need.
1 Corinthians 7:9,37 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry …
he sinneth.
1 Corinthians 7:28 But and if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin 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.
then.
1 Corinthians 7:28 But and if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, …
doeth well.
1 Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, …
Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators …
doeth better.
1 Corinthians 7:1,8,26,32-34,37 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for …
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.
But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
she.
1 Corinthians 7:1,8,26,35 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for …
I think. Rather, 'I judge (or consider) also that I have the Spirit of God;' for [dokein] is frequently used to express not what is doubtful, but what is true and certain.
1 Corinthians 7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give …
1 Corinthians 9:1-3 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ …
1 Corinthians 14:36,37 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it to you only…
2 Corinthians 10:8-10 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the …
2 Corinthians 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me: for I ought …
1 Thessalonians 4:8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also …
2 Peter 3:15,16 And account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation…
