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1Cr 7:9 — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

let		1Cr 7:2,28,36,39; 1Ti 5:11,14

Correlating Passages

let

	1Cr 7:2	Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
	1Cr 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.
	1Cr 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.
	1Cr 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.
	1Ti 5:11	But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
	1Ti 5:14	I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

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Scott, Thomas. "1 Corinthians 7:9," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/1Cr/7/9.html>.

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