9 But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
1 Corinthians 7:9
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1 Corinthians 7:27–29
27 Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife. 28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want… 29 …
1 Corinthians 7:1–3
1 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations. 2 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and lik…
1 Corinthians 7:35–37
35 I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord. 36 However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to m…
1 Corinthians 6:17–19
17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spir…
1 Thessalonians 4:3–5
3 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; 4 each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Timothy 5:10–12
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1 Corinthians 7:31–33
31 and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away. 32 I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the work of the Lord, how he can please the Lord. 33 But the marri…
2 Esdras 16:43–45
43 and he who sows, as if he wouldn’t reap, so also he who prunes the vines, as he who won’t gather the grapes, (WEB) 44 those who marry, as those who will have no children, and those who don’t marry, as the widowed. (WEB) 45 Because of this, those who labor, labor in vain; (WEB)
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