1 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Compare verse9 commentaries
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Compare verse6 commentaries
3 Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband. Compare verse4 commentaries
4 The wife has not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband has not power of his own body, but the wife. Compare verse3 commentaries
5 Defraud you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. Compare verse11 commentaries
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. Compare verse10 commentaries
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. Compare verse5 commentaries
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. Compare verse5 commentaries
10 And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: Compare verse14 commentaries
11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. Compare verse11 commentaries
12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. Compare verse4 commentaries
13 And the woman which has an husband that believes not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. Compare verse3 commentaries
14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. Compare verse10 commentaries
15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace. Compare verse7 commentaries
16 For what know you, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how know you, O man, whether you shall save your wife? Compare verse3 commentaries
17 But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches. Compare verse4 commentaries
18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. Compare verse3 commentaries
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. Compare verse2 commentaries
21 Are you called being a servant? care not for it: but if you may be made free, use it rather. Compare verse5 commentaries
22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant. Compare verse4 commentaries
25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. Compare verse7 commentaries
26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. Compare verse4 commentaries
27 Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. Compare verse7 commentaries
28 But and if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. Compare verse8 commentaries
29 But this I say, brothers, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; Compare verse18 commentaries
30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; Compare verse6 commentaries
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away. Compare verse9 commentaries
32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: Compare verse9 commentaries
33 But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. Compare verse4 commentaries
34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. Compare verse10 commentaries
35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare on you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend on the Lord without distraction. Compare verse8 commentaries
36 But if any man think that he behaves himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sins not: let them marry. Compare verse3 commentaries
37 Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well. Compare verse4 commentaries
38 So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage does better. Compare verse7 commentaries
39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. Compare verse13 commentaries
40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God. Compare verse7 commentaries