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And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body: but the wife.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:4 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 5, "text": "Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:5 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 6, "text": "But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth that the wife depart not from her husband.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put her away.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "And if any woman hath a husband that believeth not and he consent to dwell with her: let her not put away her husband.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife: and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband. Otherwise your children should be unclean: but now they are holy.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "But if the unbeliever depart, let him depart. For a brother or sister is not under servitude in such cases. But God hath called us in peace.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "But as the Lord hath distributed to every one, as God hath called every one: so let him walk. And so in all churches I teach.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "Is any man called, being circumcised? Let him not procure uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "Let every man abide in the same calling in which he was called.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "Wast thou called, being a bondman? Care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:21 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 22, "text": "For he that is called in the Lord, being a bondman, is the freeman of the Lord. Likewise he that is called, being free, is the bondman of Christ.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:22 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 23, "text": "You are bought with a price: be not made the bondslaves of men.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:23 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 24, "text": "Brethren, let every man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:24 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 25, "text": "Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:25 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 26, "text": "I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:26 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 27, "text": "Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:27 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 28, "text": "But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:28 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 29, "text": "This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none:", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:29 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 30, "text": "And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they possessed not:", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:30 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 31, "text": "And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:31 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 32, "text": "But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:32 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 33, "text": "But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:33 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 34, "text": "And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her husband.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:34 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 35, "text": "And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare upon you, but for that which is decent and which may give you power to attend upon the Lord, without impediment.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:35 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 36, "text": "But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do what he will. He sinneth not if she marry.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:36 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 37, "text": "For he that hath determined, being steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but having power of his own will: and hath judged this in his heart, to keep his virgin, doth well.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:37 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 38, "text": "Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well: and he that giveth her not doth better.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:38 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 39, "text": "A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband die, she is at liberty. Let her marry to whom she will: only in the Lord.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:39 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 40, "text": "But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain, according to my counsel. And I think that I also have the spirit of God.", "citation": "1 Corinthians 7:40 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }