VI.
Dealing with marriage life
7:1-40
A.
Concerning the gift not to marry
vv. 1-7
1 Cor. 7
:1
7:1
Now concerning the
1things of which you wrote: It is
agood for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Cor. 7
:2
7:2
But because of
1afornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
1 Cor. 7
:3
7:3
Let the
ahusband render to his wife that which is due, and likewise also the wife to the husband.
1 Cor. 7
:4
7:4
The awife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
1 Cor. 7
:5
7:5
Do not deprive each other,
aexcept by agreement for a time that you may
1devote yourselves to prayer, and
then be together again, that
2bSatan may not
ctempt you because of your
3lack of
dself-control.
1 Cor. 7
:6
7:6
But this I say by way of concession, not by way of
acommand.
1 Cor. 7
:7
7:7
Yet I
1wish all men to be even as I am myself; but each has his own
2gift from God, one in this way, the other in that.
B.
Concerning the unmarried and the widows
vv. 8-9
1 Cor. 7
:8
7:8
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is
agood for them if they remain even as I am.
1 Cor. 7
:9
7:9
But if they do not have
1aself-control, let them
bmarry; for it is better to marry than to burn
with desire.
C.
Concerning the married
vv. 10-16
1 Cor. 7
:10
7:10
But to the married
1I charge,
2anot I but the Lord, A
bwife must not be
cseparated from
her husband
1 Cor. 7
:11
7:11
(But if indeed she is separated, let her
1remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband), and a
ahusband must not leave
his wife.
1 Cor. 7
:12
7:12
But to the rest
1I say, I,
anot the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to dwell with him, he must not
bleave her;
1 Cor. 7
:13
7:13
And a wife who has an unbelieving husband, and
if he consents to dwell with her, must not leave her husband.
1 Cor. 7
:14
7:14
For the unbelieving husband is
1asanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
1 Cor. 7
:15
7:15
But if the unbelieving one separates, let him separate; the brother or the sister is
1not enslaved in such
cases, 2but God has called us in
apeace.
1 Cor. 7
:16
7:16
1For 2how do you know, O
awife, whether you will
bsave your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
D.
Remaining in the status of one's calling
vv. 17-24
1 Cor. 7
:17
7:17
1However as the Lord has apportioned to each one, as God has
acalled each one, so let him walk. And so I direct in all the
bchurches.
1 Cor. 7
:18
7:18
Was anyone called having been circumcised? He need not
1efface it. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He need not be
acircumcised.
1 Cor. 7
:19
7:19
1aCircumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the
bkeeping of God's commandments
is what counts.
1 Cor. 7
:20
7:20
Each one, in the
acalling in which he was called, in this let him remain.
1 Cor. 7
:21
7:21
Were you called as a
aslave?
1Let it not concern you;
2but even if you are able to become
bfree,
cuse your status as a slave rather.
1 Cor. 7
:22
7:22
For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; likewise the free man who has been called is
1Christ's
aslave.
1 Cor. 7
:23
7:23
You were
abought with a
1price; do not be
2bslaves of men.
1 Cor. 7
:24
7:24
Each one, brothers, in what
status he was
acalled, in this let him remain
1with God.
E.
Concerning keeping virginity
vv. 25-38
1 Cor. 7
:25
7:25
Now concerning
avirgins I have
bno commandment of the Lord, but I give
1my copinion as one who has been shown
dmercy by the Lord to be
efaithful.
1 Cor. 7
:26
7:26
I consider then that this is good because of the
1present 2necessity, that
it is agood for a man to be as he is.
1 Cor. 7
:27
7:27
Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek a release. Have you been released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
1 Cor. 7
:28
7:28
But even if you do
amarry, you have
bnot sinned; and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned; but such ones will have affliction in the flesh, and I am trying to spare you.
1 Cor. 7
:29
7:29
But this I say, brothers, the time is
1ashortened. Henceforth both those who have wives should be as though they had none,
1 Cor. 7
:30
7:30
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 Cor. 7
:31
7:31
And those who use the world as though they did not abuse
it; for the fashion of this world is
apassing away.
1 Cor. 7
:32
7:32
But I desire you to be without
acare. The unmarried
bcares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
1 Cor. 7
:33
7:33
But he who has married
acares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
1 Cor. 7
:34
7:34
And is
1distracted. Both the unmarried woman and the virgin care for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she who has married
acares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
1 Cor. 7
:35
7:35
But this I say for your own profit, not that I may
1put a noose upon you but that you may be comely and may wait on the Lord without
adistraction.
1 Cor. 7
:36
7:36
But if anyone thinks that he is behaving unbecomingly to his virgin
daughter, if she is past the bloom of youth and thus it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does
anot sin; let them marry.
1 Cor. 7
:37
7:37
But he who stands firm in his heart,
1being under no constraint, and has authority with respect to his own will and has
2decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin
daughter, he will do well.
1 Cor. 7
:38
7:38
So then both he who gives his own virgin
daughter in
amarriage does well, and he who does not give
her in marriage will do better.
F.
Concerning remarriage
vv. 39-40
1 Cor. 7
:39
7:39
A wife is
abound for so long a time as her husband lives; but should the husband fall asleep, she is free to be married to whom she wishes,
bonly to one in the Lord.
1 Cor. 7
:40
7:40
But she is
1more blessed if she so remains, according to my
aopinion; but I think that I
2also have the
bSpirit of God.
