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the Lord,
being
a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called,
being
free, is Christ’s
servant.
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Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
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Brethren, let every man,
wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
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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.
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I suppose therefore that this is good for the
present distress,
I say,
that
it is
good for a man so to be.
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Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to
be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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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.
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But this I say, brethren, the time
is
short: it remaineth, that both they that have
wives be as though they had none;
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And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that
rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
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And they
that use this world, as not abusing
it:
for the fashion of this world passeth away.
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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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But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world,
how he may please
his
wife.
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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.
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And this I
speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and
that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
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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 themmarry.
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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.
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So then he that giveth
her
in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth
her
not in marriage doeth better.
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The 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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But
she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
CHAPTER CORINTHIANS 8
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth
up, but charity edifieth.
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And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet
as he ought to know.
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But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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As concerning therefore
the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol
is
nothing
in the world, and that
there is
none other God but one.
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For though there be that are called gods,
whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
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But to us
there is but
one
God, the Father, of whom
are
all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom
are
all things, and we by him.
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Howbeit
there is
not in every man that knowledge: for some with
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