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Malachi Chapter 7

1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for

2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own

3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise

4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and

5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a

6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath

8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them

9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to

10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not

12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife

13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he

14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the

15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a

16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy

18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become

19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the

20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou

22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s

23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with

25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I

26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I

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

28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin

29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that

31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion

32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried

34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The

35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare

36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his

37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no

38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that

39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but

40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I