Verse 36
1 Corinthians 7:36
World English Bible
36
But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.
Original Language Text
greek
Εἰ δέ τις ἀσχημονεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν παρθένον αὐτοῦ νομίζει ἐὰν ᾖ ὑπέρακμος, καὶ οὕτως ὀφείλει γίνεσθαι, ὃ θέλει ποιείτω· οὐχ ἁμαρτάνει· γαμείτωσαν.
English Translation
If someone thinks it wrong to act shamelessly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her youth, and thus it should be, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry.
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own...
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Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
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The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’...
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5
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fas...
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But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
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7
Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God (Elohim), one of th...
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But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
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9
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
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10
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
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(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the h...
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12
But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to li...
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The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her...
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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the...
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Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bonda...
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For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether...
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17
Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God (Elohim) has called each, so let him walk. So...
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18
Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called...
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19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God (...
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20
Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
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21
Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to bec...
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For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was ca...
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You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.
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Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God (Elohim...
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Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has o...
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Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as...
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Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
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But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have o...
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But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as t...
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and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice...
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and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away....
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But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of t...
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but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
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34
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things o...
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This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and t...
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But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flow...
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But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and ha...
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So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marri...
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A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to...
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But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God (Elohim)...
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