1 Corinthians 7:9
"But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn."
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- 1 Timothy 5:14
"I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 7:2
"Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband."
Read in chapter → - 1 Timothy 5:11
"But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;"
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 7:28
"But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 7:39
"The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord."
Read in chapter → - 1 Corinthians 7:36
"But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry."
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