Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
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1 Corinthians 7:1
Now as to the matters of which you wrote: It is good (beneficial, advantageous) for a man not to touch a woman [outside marriage].
Jeremiah 16:2
“You shall not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place (Jerusalem).”
Matthew 24:19 And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
Luke 21:23 Woe to those women who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For great trouble and anguish will be on the land, and wrath and retribution on this people [Israel].
Luke 23:28
But Jesus, turning toward them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
1 Peter 4:17
For it is the time [destined] for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not respect or believe or obey the gospel of God?
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Jeremiah 16:2
“You shall not take a wife or have sons and daughters in this place (Jerusalem).”
Matthew 19:10
The disciples said to Jesus, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”
1 Corinthians 7:8
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, [that as a practical matter] it is good if they remain [single and entirely devoted to the Lord] as I am.