007:007 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. 007:008 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. 007:009 But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn. 007:010 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband 007:011 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. 007:012 But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. 007:013 The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. 007:014 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. 007:015 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace. 007:016 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? 007:017 Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies. 007:018 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. 007:019 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 007:020 Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. 007:021 Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. 007:022 For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant. 007:023 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men. 007:024 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God. 007:025 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. 007:026 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is. 007:027 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife. 007:028 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.