1 Corinthians 7:1

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.

They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.

“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

“ ‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”

For these nations that you shall dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.

Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong.”

“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.’

that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. Another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

His disciples said to him, “If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.”

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

“Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.

Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’ ”

Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them. Haven’t I commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, go to the vessels, and drink from that which the young men have drawn.”

So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.