Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 7:1 (show verse)
Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:2 (show verse)
But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3 (show verse)
The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:4 (show verse)
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
1 Corinthians 7:5 (show verse)
1 Corinthians 7:6 (show verse)
But this I say by way of concession, not of command.
1 Corinthians 7:7 (show verse)
1 Corinthians 7:8 (show verse)
But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.
1 Corinthians 7:9 (show verse)
But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
1 Corinthians 7:10 (show verse)
But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband
1 Corinthians 7:11 (show verse)
(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
1 Corinthians 7:12 (show verse)
But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.
1 Corinthians 7:13 (show verse)
And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away.
1 Corinthians 7:14 (show verse)
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
1 Corinthians 7:15 (show verse)
Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.
1 Corinthians 7:16 (show verse)
For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
1 Corinthians 7:17 (show verse)
Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this manner let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches.
1 Corinthians 7:18 (show verse)
Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.
1 Corinthians 7:19 (show verse)
1 Corinthians 7:20 (show verse)
1 Corinthians 7:21 (show verse)
Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather do that.
1 Corinthians 7:22 (show verse)
For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ’s slave.
1 Corinthians 7:23 (show verse)
1 Corinthians 7:24 (show verse)
Brethren, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.
1 Corinthians 7:25 (show verse)
Now concerning virgins I have no command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.
1 Corinthians 7:26 (show verse)
I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
1 Corinthians 7:27 (show verse)
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
1 Corinthians 7:28 (show verse)
But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:29 (show verse)
But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;
1 Corinthians 7:30 (show verse)
and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;
1 Corinthians 7:31 (show verse)
and those who use the world, as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away.
1 Corinthians 7:32 (show verse)
But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
1 Corinthians 7:33 (show verse)
but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
1 Corinthians 7:34 (show verse)
and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:35 (show verse)
This I say for your own benefit; not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is appropriate and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:36 (show verse)
But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.
1 Corinthians 7:37 (show verse)
But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well.
1 Corinthians 7:38 (show verse)
So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.
1 Corinthians 7:39 (show verse)
1 Corinthians 7:40 (show verse)
But in my opinion she is happier if she remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.