1 CORINTHIANS 7:1-24
7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man 
not to touch a woman.
7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and 
let every woman have her own husband.
7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the 
wife unto the husband.
7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also 
the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye 
may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan 
tempt you not for your incontinency.
7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his 
proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they 
abide even as I.
7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than 
to burn.
7:10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife 
depart from her husband:
7:11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her 
husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that 
believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
7:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be 
pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving 
wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are 
they holy.
7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is 
not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
7:16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how 
knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
7:17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every 
one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
7:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is 
any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of 
the commandments of God.
7:20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
7:21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be 
made free, use it rather.
7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: 
likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
7:24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.