But 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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1 Corinthians 7 38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
1 Corinthians 7 36 But 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.
1 Corinthians 7 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Proverbs 18 22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Numbers 5 20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Hosea 3 3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
1 Corinthians 7 37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
Exodus 21 5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
Proverbs 3 30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
1 Corinthians 7 8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Corinthians 7 28 But 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.
1 Corinthians 7 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
Ecclesiastes 9 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Isaiah 47 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
1 Corinthians 5 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1 Corinthians 7 34 There 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.
Luke 16 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
1 Timothy 5 22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
Hosea 2 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
Leviticus 21 14 A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
2 Corinthians 11 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
1 Corinthians 7 27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
Deuteronomy 5 21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Romans 13 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1 Corinthians 7 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 John 1 5 Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;
Deuteronomy 22 25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.
1 Corinthians 7 25 Now 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.
Proverbs 6 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
2 Samuel 22 27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
Ezekiel 16 32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Exodus 20 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Matthew 19 9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
Song of Solomon 1 8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents.
Deuteronomy 22 29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Jeremiah 49 11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Exodus 21 10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Hosea 3 1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
1 Peter 3 1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Genesis 34 12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
1 Corinthians 7 33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Hebrews 13 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Peter 3 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Hosea 2 19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
1 Corinthians 7 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Genesis 4 7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Luke 19 31 And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
Psalms 112 5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
Malachi 2 14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
1 Corinthians 11 11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.