1 Corinthians 7:8

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

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

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

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.

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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:

Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

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

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”

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

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

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

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;

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

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.

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.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

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?

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

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.

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.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.