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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF CO1 7:1 The Law of Marriage and Divorce.
Now about what you wrote to me. It is well for a man not to be encumbered with a wife:
RF CO1 7:2 but for fear of unchastity, each man should have his own wife; and each woman should have her own husband.
RF CO1 7:3 The husband should do his duty to his wife; and the wife also to her husband.
RF CO1 7:4 The wife has not absolute disposal of her own body, but her husband; and likewise the husband has not authority over his body, but the wife.
RF CO1 7:5 You should not separate from one another: except perhaps, for a time, by consent, so that you may have leisure for prayer; and you should return again to one another, so that the enemy may not tempt you through passion.
RF CO1 7:6 However, I say this from opinion; not by a special command.
RF CO1 7:7 Yet I wish all men to be even like myself: but each has his own gift from God—one this way, and another that.
RF CO1 7:8 But for the unmarried men and the widows, it were well for them if they could remain as I myself;
RF CO1 7:9 but if they have not self-restraint, they should marry; for to marry is better than to be feverish.
RF CO1 7:10 However, to the married the Lord commands, not I: A wife should not be separated from a husband;
RF CO1 7:11 but if she should separate, let her remain unmarried, or let her return to her husband. And a husband should not dismiss his wife.
RF CO1 7:12 But for what follows, I myself speak, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she agrees to live with him, she should not be dismissed;
RF CO1 7:13 and a wife who may have an unbelieving husband, and he agrees to live with her, she should not leave her husband.
RF CO1 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is purified in the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife is purified in the brother: or else the children would be defiled; but now they are pure.
RF CO1 7:15 Yet if the unbeliever will separate, let him do so; the brother or sister is not in bondage to such. God, however, called us into peace.
RF CO1 7:16 For how do you know, wife, but that you may save your husband? or how do you know?, husband, but that you may use your wife?
RF CO1 7:17 Should not everyone walk in the way in which the Lord has apportioned, as God has called? I order the same in all the assemblies.
RF CO1 7:18 Was one called when circumcised? Let it not be rejected. Has another been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
RF CO1 7:19 The circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing; but observing Divine commands,
RF CO1 7:20 each should continue in the condition in which he was called.
RF CO1 7:21 Were you called when a slave? do not let it fret you. But if you are able to become a freeman, then prefer it.
RF CO1 7:22 For the slave having been called to the Lord, is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the freeman is a slave of Christ.
RF CO1 7:23 You were dearly bought; do not become slaves of men.
RF CO1 7:24 Let each continue in the condition, brothers, in which he was called towards God.
RF CO1 7:25 But about the young girls, I have not a decision from the Lord; but I give an opinion as I was granted to be trusted under the Lord.
RF CO1 7:26 I think, therefore, that to encounter more easily the present distress, it is good for a man to act in this way:
RF CO1 7:27 If you are married to a wife, do not attempt to be free; if free from a wife, do not seek a wife.
RF CO1 7:28 But if you should marry, you do no wrong; and if a girl marries, she does no wrong—but they will have bodily privations. Therefore I spare you.
RF CO1 7:29 However, I say this, brothers: The time remaining is short, until both they having wives may be as having none;
RF CO1 7:30 and the weepers as not weeping; and the gay as not rejoicing; and the buyers as not possessing;
RF CO1 7:31 and those using this world as not consuming it, for the arrangement of this world passes away:
RF CO1 7:32 and I want you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man should look after the affairs Of the Lord—how he may please the Lord;
RF CO1 7:33 but the married should look after the affairs of the world—how he may Please his wife.
RF CO1 7:34 There is a condition both for the wife and for the maiden. The unmarried woman should attend to the wishes Of the Lord, so that she may be pure both in body and spirit; but the married should attend to the business of the world, how she may be pleasing to her husband.
RF CO1 7:35 And I say this for your own application; not that I lay a trap for you, but rather to assist you to be decent, and devoted to the Lord without distraction.
RF CO1 7:36 But if any one decides that it is not suitable for his daughter, if she should be passing the bloom of life, and is under engagement to do thus, let him do what he desires, it is not wrong; they may be married.
RF CO1 7:37 But whoever stands steadfast in his heart, he is not obliged, since he possesses control over his individual will; and if he decides thus in his own heart to retain the girl at home, he does well.
RF CO1 7:38 So that he who marries does well, and the man who does not marry does better.
RF CO1 7:39 A wife is given by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whoever she wishes; only in the Lord.
RF CO1 7:40 But she will be happier if she should remain so, according to my judgment; and I suppose I also know God's intention.




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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