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1 Corinthians 7:9
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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 7:9
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 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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