1 Corinthians 7:17

American Standard Version (1901)

Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches.

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  • 1 Cor 4:17 : 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.
  • 2 Cor 11:28 : 28 Besides those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches.
  • Rom 12:3-8 : 3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith. 4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office: 5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another. 6 And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of our faith; 7 or ministry, [let us give ourselves] to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching; 8 or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth, [let him do it] with liberality; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.
  • 2 Cor 8:18 : 18 And we have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the gospel [is spread] through all the churches;
  • Matt 19:12 : 12 For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; 11 if any man speaketh, [speaking] as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, [ministering] as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 7:7 : 7 Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
  • 1 Cor 7:18 : 18 Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
  • 1 Cor 7:20-21 : 20 Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called. 21 Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.
  • 1 Cor 7:24 : 24 Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 for God is not [a God] of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
  • 1 Cor 16:1 : 1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.

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  • 1 Cor 7:18-22
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    18Was any man called being circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

    19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God.

    20Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called.

    21Wast thou called being a bondservant? Care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use [it] rather.

    22For he that was called in the Lord being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman: likewise he that was called being free, is Christ's bondservant.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-27
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    24Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.

    25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.

    26I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, [namely], that it is good for a man to be as he is.

    27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:6-8
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    6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

    7Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

    8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

  • 1 Cor 7:15-16
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    15Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases] : but God hath called us in peace.

    16For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

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    1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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    35And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

    36But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.

    37But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching in his own heart, to keep his own virgin [daughter], shall do well.

    38So then both he that giveth his own virgin [daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

    39A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

    40But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

  • Rom 12:4-5
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    4For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:

    5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

  • 1 Cor 7:10-12
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    10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

    11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

    12But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

  • 1 Cor 12:11-12
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    11but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.

    12For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

  • 1 Cor 12:18
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    18But now hath God set the members each one of them in the body, even as it pleased him.

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    10according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

    11if any man speaketh, [speaking] as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, [ministering] as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

  • 1 Cor 3:5
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    5What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.

  • 2 Thess 3:6
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    6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

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    32But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

  • 1 Cor 12:27
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    27Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.

  • 1 Cor 11:16
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    16But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

  • 1 Cor 11:2-3
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    2Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

    3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

  • 1 Cor 12:14
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    14For the body is not one member, but many.

  • 1 Cor 9:14
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    14Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

  • 1 Cor 14:37
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    37If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

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    40But let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

  • Rom 12:7
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    7or ministry, [let us give ourselves] to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching;

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.

  • 1 Thess 4:7
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    7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

  • Rom 7:2
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    2For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.