Matthew 19:11

"It is not every man," He replied, "who can receive this teaching, but only those on whom the grace has been bestowed.

1 Corinthians 7:17

Only, whatever be the condition in life which the Lord has assigned to each individual--and whatever the condition in which he was living when God called him--in that let him continue.

Matthew 13:11

"Because," He replied, "while to you it is granted to know the secrets of the Kingdom of the Heavens, to them it is not.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

1 Corinthians 7:7-9

Yet I would that everybody lived as I do; but each of us has his own special gift from God--one in one direction and one in another.

1 Corinthians 7:35

Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait on the Lord without distraction.

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But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

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1 Corinthians 7:2
But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.