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1 Corinthians 7:1
1 Corinthians 7:1 is verse 1 of 1 Corinthians chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
Literally It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
King James Version
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
World English Bible
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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1 Corinthians 7:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible
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 likewise the wife to her husband.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 7:8Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.
1 Corinthians 7:26Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
1 Corinthians 7:27Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.
1 Corinthians 7:37But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.
1 Corinthians 7:38So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.
Matthew 19:10His disciples said to Him, “If this is the case between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”
Matthew 19:11“Not everyone can accept this word,” He replied, “but only those to whom it has been given.
Genesis 20:6Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
Ruth 2:9Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”
Proverbs 6:29So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.