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So a woman who is free of wedlock, or a virgin, is concerned with the Lord’s claim, intent on holiness, bodily and spiritual; whereas the married woman is concerned with the world’s claim, asking how she is to please her husband. (1 Corinthians 7, 34)
I am thinking of your own interest when I say this. It is not that I would hold you in a leash; I am thinking of what is suitable for you, and how you may best attend on the Lord without distraction. (1 Corinthians 7, 35)
Whereas, if a man remains fixed in his resolution, and makes up his mind to keep the girl who is in his charge unwed, although there is no necessity for it, and he is free to choose for himself, such a man is well advised. (1 Corinthians 7, 37)
As for a wife, she is yoked to her husband as long as he lives; if her husband is dead, she is free to marry anyone she will, so long as she marries in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 7, 39)
But more blessed is she, if she remains as she is, in my judgement; and I, too, claim to have the Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 7, 40)
And now about meat that has been used in idolatrous worship. We all know, to be sure, what is the truth about it: but knowledge only breeds self-conceit, it is charity that binds the building together. (1 Corinthians 8, 1)
If anybody claims to have superior knowledge, it means that he has not yet attained the knowledge which is true knowledge; (1 Corinthians 8, 2)
About meat, then, used in idolatrous worship, we can be sure of this, that a false god has no existence in the order of things; there is one God, and there can be no other. (1 Corinthians 8, 4)
Whatever gods may be spoken of as existing in heaven or on earth (and there are many such gods, many such lords), (1 Corinthians 8, 5)
for us there is only one God, the Father who is the origin of all things, and the end of our being; only one Lord, Jesus Christ, the creator of all things, who is our way to him.✻ (1 Corinthians 8, 6)
But it is not everybody who has this knowledge;✻ there are those who still think of such meat, while they eat it, as something belonging to idolatrous worship, with the thought of the false god in their minds; their conscience is not easy, and so incurs guilt. (1 Corinthians 8, 7)
it is for you to see that the liberty you allow yourselves does not prove a snare to doubtful consciences. (1 Corinthians 8, 9)
