1 Corinthians 7 - Revised Standard Version(RSVCI)

1Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman.

2But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

3The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

4For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does.

5 to peace.

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22 I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.

26I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to remain as he is.

27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage.

28But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a girl marries she does not sin. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

29 is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband.

35I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

36If any one thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.

37But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.

38So that he who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better.

39 Rom 7.2. A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

401 Cor 7.25. But in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I have the Spirit of God.