1 Corinthians 7:27
Have you become committed to a wife? Stop trying to get released from your commitment. Have you been freed from your commitment to a wife? Stop looking for one.
1 Corinthians 7:12-14
I (not the Lord) say to the rest of you: If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is willing to live with him, he must not abandon her.
1 Corinthians 7:20
Everyone should stay in the same condition in which he was called.
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Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Thou bound
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Bible References
Thou bound
1 Corinthians 7:12
I (not the Lord) say to the rest of you: If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is willing to live with him, he must not abandon her.
General references
Jeremiah 16:2
"You are not to take a wife, nor are you to have sons or daughters in this place."
Matthew 19:10
His disciples asked him, "If that is the relationship of a man with his wife, it's not worth getting married!"
1 Corinthians 7:8
I say to those who are unmarried, especially to widows: It is good for them to remain like me.