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1 Corinthians 7:40
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1 Corinthians 7:40
40But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
40But shee is happier if shee sobide, after my iudgment: and I thinke also that I haue the Spirit of God.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 7:40
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
More happy, blessed, fortunate, or joyful.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To remain, continue, or endure.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To form or hold a thought; to judge, suppose, intend, consider, remember, imagine, or esteem, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study1NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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Open the full verse study25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
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Open the full verse study8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
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Open the full verse study36What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
37If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
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Open the full verse study6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
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Open the full verse study1AM I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
2If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
3Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
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Open the full verse study8He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
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Open the full verse study8For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
9That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
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Open the full verse study11I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
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Open the full verse study15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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