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1 Corinthians 7 6
But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
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1 Corinthians 4 2
Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
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1 Corinthians 7 12
But to the rest I— not the Lord— say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
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1 Corinthians 7 40
But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.
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2 Corinthians 8 8-2 Corinthians 8 10
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
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Psalms 78:63
Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
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2 Corinthians 4 1-2 Corinthians 4 2
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
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1 Timothy 1 12-1 Timothy 1 16
I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
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2 Corinthians 11 17
That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
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1 Corinthians 7 28
But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
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2 Corinthians 2 17
For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
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1 Corinthians 7 10
But to the married I command— not I, but the Lord— that the wife not leave her husband
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1 Corinthians 7 36-1 Corinthians 7 38
But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.
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1 Corinthians 15 10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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1 Corinthians 7 34
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world— how she may please her husband.