1 Corinthians 7:40

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.

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

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,

we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

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.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

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.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”

I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

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

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

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.

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

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

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.

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

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

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;

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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

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.

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

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.

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.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.

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.

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

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.