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1 Corinthians 7:6–9
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1 Corinthians 7:6
6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
6But I speake this by permission, and not of commandement.
1 Corinthians 7:7
7For 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.
7For I would that all men were euen as I my selfe: but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, and another after that.
1 Corinthians 7:8
8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
8I say therefore to the vnmaried and widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I.
1 Corinthians 7:9
9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
9But if they cannot conteine, let them marry: for it is better to marrie then to burne.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 7:6
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
permission
Sufferance, leave.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
commandment
An authoritative command, charge, order, or precept to be obeyed, as identified by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 7:7
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Just as, or in the same manner stated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A compound of my and self, used after I, to express emphasis, marking emphatically the distinction between the speaker and unother person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
One's own; peculiar to one; also fair or comely.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Something given or bestowed; a present, endowment, or ability; in some contexts, a bribe.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
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)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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)
One more; an additional or different person or thing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 7:8
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Not married; having no husband or no wife.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Women whose husbands have died.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · KJV usage (PCE)
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To remain, continue, or endure.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Just as, or in the same manner stated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 7:9
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Is unable to; is not able to.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To hold within limits or capacity; to comprise, include, or restrain; in 1 Corinthians 7:9, to exercise continence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To take or join in marriage; to enter the marriage relation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
More excellent, more fitting, or to a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To consume, injure, heat, dry, or harden by fire or intense heat; also to be on fire.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 6
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Open the full verse study8I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
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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.
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Open the full verse study12But 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.
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Open the full verse study17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
From verse 7
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Open the full verse study11But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
12For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
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Open the full verse study5Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
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Open the full verse study6Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
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Open the full verse study4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
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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 study11But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
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Open the full verse study29And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
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Open the full verse study15But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
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Open the full verse study34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35And 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 study26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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Open the full verse study7For 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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Open the full verse study1NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
From verse 9
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Open the full verse study2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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Open the full verse study14I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
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Open the full verse study11But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
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Open the full verse study28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
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Open the full verse study36But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
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Open the full verse study39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
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