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Read Full Chapter (1 Corinthians 7) 1 Corinthians 7:8-9 KJV
"I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn."
1 Corinthians 7:8-9 in Context (Verses 5–12 KJV)
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Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
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But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
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For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
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I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
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But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
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And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
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But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
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But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.