1 Cor 7:8 ¶ But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.
1 Cor 7:10 ¶ But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband
1 Cor 7:11 (but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.
1 Cor 7:12 ¶ But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.
1 Cor 7:13 And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away.
1 Cor 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
1 Cor 7:15 Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace.
1 Cor 7:16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
1 Cor 7:17 ¶ Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, in this manner let him walk. And so I direct in all the churches.
1 Cor 7:18 Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.
1 Cor 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God.
1 Cor 7:20 Each man must remain in that condition in which he was called.
1 Cor 7:21 ¶ Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it; but if you are able also to become free, rather do that.
1 Cor 7:22 For he who was called in the Lord while a slave, is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was called while free, is Christ's slave.
1 Cor 7:23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
1 Cor 7:24 Brethren, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.
1 Cor 7:25 ¶ Now concerning virgins I have no command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.
1 Cor 7:26 I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
1 Cor 7:27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
1 Cor 7:28 But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.