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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Corinthians 7 ERV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_corinthians/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_corinthians/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ERV</a> > 1 Corinthians 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_corinthians/6.htm" title="1 Corinthians 6">◄</a> 1 Corinthians 7 <a href="../1_corinthians/8.htm" title="1 Corinthians 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">English Revised Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Teachings on Marriage</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But this I say by way of permission, not of commandment. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>(but and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the woman which hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?</p> <p class="hdg">Live According to Your Calling</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Was any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Wast thou called being a bondservant? care not for it: but if thou canst become free, use it rather. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For he that was called in the Lord, being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called, being free, is Christ's bondservant. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.</p> <p class="hdg">Instructions to Unmarried and Widowed</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I think therefore that this is good by reason of the present distress, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and those that use the world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And there is a difference also between the wife and the virgin. She that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching his own will, and hath determined this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, shall do well. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_corinthians/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Corinthians 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_corinthians/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Corinthians 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Corinthians 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/1_corinthians/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>