1 Corinthians 7:40 Cross References - Geneva

⁴⁰ But shee is more blessed, if she so abide, in my iudgement: and I thinke that I haue also the Spirite of God.

¹ Nowe concerning the thinges whereof ye wrote vnto mee, It were good for a man not to touche a woman.

⁶ But I speake this by permission, not by commandement.

⁸ Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.

²⁵ Nowe concerning virgines, I haue no commandement of the Lord: but I giue mine aduise, as one that hath obtained mercie of the Lord to be faithfull. ²⁶ I suppose then this to bee good for the present necessitie: I meane that it is good for a man so to be.

³⁵ And this I speake for your owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, but that yee follow that, which is honest, and that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation.

¹ Am I not an Apostle? am I not free? haue I not seene Iesus Christ our Lord? are ye not my worke in the Lord? ² If I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet doutlesse I am vnto you: for ye are the seale of mine Apostleship in the Lord. ³ My defence to them that examine mee, is this,

³⁶ Came the worde of God out from you? either came it vnto you onely? ³⁷ If any man thinke him selfe to be a Prophet, or spirituall, let him acknowledge, that the things, that I write vnto you, are the commandements of the Lord.

⁸ For though I shoulde boast somewhat more of our authoritie, which the Lord hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction, I should haue no shame. ⁹ This I say, that I may not seeme as it were to feare you with letters. ¹⁰ For the letters, sayeth hee, are sore and strong, but his bodily presence is weake, and his speache is of no value.

¹¹ I was a foole to boast my selfe: yee haue compelled mee: for I ought to haue bene commended of you: for in nothing was I inferiour vnto the very chiefe Apostles, though I bee nothing.

⁸ Hee therefore that despiseth these thinges, despiseth not man, but God who hath euen giuen you his holy Spirit.

¹⁵ And suppose that the long suffering of our Lord is saluation, euen as our beloued brother Paul according to the wisedome giuen vnto him wrote to you, ¹⁶ As one, that in all his Epistles speaketh of these thinges: among the which some thinges are hard to be vnderstand, which they that are vnlearned and vnstable, wrest, as they do also other Scriptures vnto their owne destruction.