Being Devoted to the Lord

1 Corinthians 7:32-35 ESV / 328 help !l votes

I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:8 ESV / 217 help !l votes

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am.

1 Corinthians 7:1-"# ESV / 123 help !l votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote !It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman." But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her con#ugal rights, and li$ewise the wife to her husband. %or the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Li$ewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. &o not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer' but then come together again, so that (atan may not tempt you because of your lac$ of self)control. ...

2 Corinthians $:1" ESV / 11$ help !l votes

&o not be une*ually yo$ed with unbelievers. %or what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness+ ,r what fellowship has light with dar$ness+

%osea 2:1&-2# ESV / 8# help !l votes

And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in #ustice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall $now the Lord.

'saiah "1:1# ESV / $8 help !l votes

%ear not, for I am with you' be not dismayed, for I am your -od' I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

(ar) 12:25 ESV / 5& help !l votes

%or when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are li$e angels in heaven.

1 Corinthians 7:2$-28 ESV / 58 help !l votes

I thin$ that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is. Are you bound to a wife+ &o not see$ to be free. Are you free from a wife+ &o not see$ a wife. But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. .et those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 55 help !l votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

(atthe* 1&:"-$ ESV / "5 help !l votes

/e answered, !/ave you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 0Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh1+ (o they are no longer two but one flesh. 2hat therefore -od has #oined together, let not man separate."

(atthe* 22:2&-3# ESV / "3 help !l votes

But 3esus answered them, !.ou are wrong, because you $now neither the (criptures nor the power of -od. %or in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are li$e angels in heaven.

(atthe* 1&:12 ESV / "3 help !l votes

%or there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sa$e of the $ingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it."

1 +ohn 3:22 ESV / "2 help !l votes

And whatever we as$ we receive from him, because we $eep his commandments and do what pleases him.

1 Corinthians $:1$ ESV / 3& help !l votes

,r do you not $now that he who is #oined to a prostitute becomes one body with her+ %or, as it is written, !The two will become one flesh."

,enesis 2:18 ESV / 3" help !l votes

Then the Lord -od said, !It is not good that the man should be alone' I will ma$e him a helper fit for him."

Song o Solo-on 3:5 ESV / 28 help !l votes

I ad#ure you, , daughters of 3erusalem, by the ga4elles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awa$en love until it pleases.

1 Corinthians 7:32 ESV / 2$ help !l votes

I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.

'saiah 5$:"-5 ESV / 17 help !l votes

%or thus says the Lord !To the eunuchs who $eep my (abbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters' I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.

'saiah 3":1$ ESV / 17 help !l votes

(ee$ and read from the boo$ of the Lord Not one of these shall be missing' none shall be without her mate. %or the mouth of the Lord has commanded, and his (pirit has gathered them.

'saiah 5":5 ESV / 1$ help !l votes

%or your 5a$er is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name' and the /oly ,ne of Israel is your 6edeemer, the -od of the whole earth he is called.

(atthe* $:33 ESV / 1" help !l votes

But see$ first the $ingdom of -od and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

.!th 2:& ESV / 1" help !l votes

Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. /ave I not charged the young men not to touch you+ And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drin$ what the young men have drawn."

+ohn 15:1-27 ESV / 13 help !l votes

!I am the true vine, and my %ather is the vinedresser. 7very branch in me that does not bear fruit he ta$es away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spo$en to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine' you are the branches. 2hoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...

1 Corinthians 7:2$-"# ESV / 11 help !l votes

I thin$ that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is. Are you bound to a wife+ &o not see$ to be free. Are you free from a wife+ &o not see$ a wife. But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. .et those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. This is what I mean, brothers the appointed time has grown very short. %rom now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who re#oice as though they were not re#oicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, ...

+o/ 31:1-"# ESV / 8 help !l votes

!I have made a covenant with my eyes' how then could I ga4e at a virgin+ 2hat would be my portion from -od above and my heritage from the Almighty on high+ Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the wor$ers of ini*uity+ &oes not he see my ways and number all my steps+ !If I have wal$ed with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit' ...

+ere-iah 2&:11 ESV / 7 help !l votes

%or I $now the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

0rover/s 31:1-31 ESV / 5 help !l votes

The words of 8ing Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him 2hat are you doing, my son+ 2hat are you doing, son of my womb+ 2hat are you doing, son of my vows+ &o not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy $ings. It is not for $ings, , Lemuel, it is not for $ings to drin$ wine, or for rulers to ta$e strong drin$, lest they drin$ and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

.o-ans 1:1-32 ESV / " help !l votes

9aul, a servant of :hrist 3esus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of -od, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy (criptures, concerning his (on, who was descended from &avid according to the flesh and was declared to be the (on of -od in power according to the (pirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, 3esus :hrist our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sa$e of his name among all the nations, ...

1 1ings 1:1-53 ESV / 3 help !l votes

Now 8ing &avid was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm. Therefore his servants said to him, !Let a young woman be sought for my lord the $ing, and let her wait on the $ing and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the $ing may be warm." (o they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the (hunammite, and brought her to the $ing. The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the $ing and attended to him, but the $ing $new her not. Now Adoni#ah the son of /aggith exalted himself, saying, !I will be $ing." And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. ...

+o/ 31:1 ESV / 2 help !l votes

!I have made a covenant with my eyes' how then could I ga4e at a virgin+