1 Corinthians 7:40 Cross References - Coverdale

⁴⁰ But she is happier yf she so abyde after my iudgment. I thinke verely that I also haue the sprete of God.

¹ As concernynge the thinges wherof ye wrote vnto me, I answere: It is good for a man not to touche a woman.

⁶ But this I saye of fauoure, and not of commaundemet.

⁸ To them verely yt are vnmaried and to wedowes I saye: It is good for the that they abyde also as I do.

²⁵ As concernynge virgins, I haue no commaundement of the LORDE, neuertheles I saye my goodmeanynge, as I haue optayned mercy of the LORDE to be faithfull. ²⁶ I suppose it is good for ye present necessite: for it is good for a man so to be.

³⁵ This I saye for youre profit, not that I wil tangle you in a snare, but for that which is honest and comly vnto you, that ye maye cotynually cleue vnto the LORDE without hynderaunce.

¹ Am I not an Apostle? Am I not fre? Haue I not sene Iesus Christ oure LORDE? ² Are not ye my worke in the LORDE? Yf I be not an Apostle vnto other, yet am I youre Apostle: for the seale of myne Apostleshippe are ye in the LORDE. ³ Myne answere vnto them that axe me, is this:

³⁶ Or spronge the worde of God from amonge you? Or is it come vnto you onely? ³⁷ Yf eny man thynke himselfe to be a prophet, or spirituall, let him knowe what I wryte vnto you, for they are the commaundementes of the LORDE.

⁸ And though I shulde boast my selfe somwhat more of oure auctorite which ye LORDE hath geue vs to edifye and not to destroye, it shulde not be to my shame. ⁹ This I saye, lest I shulde seme, as though I wente aboute to make you afrayed with letters. ¹⁰ For the pistles (saye they) are sore and stronge, but his bodely presence is weake, and his speache rude.

¹¹ I am become a fole i boastinge my selfe: Ye haue copelled me. For I oughte to be comended of you, in so moch as I am in nothinge inferior to ye hye Apostles. Though I be nothinge,

⁸ He therfore that despyseth, despyseth not man, but God, which hath geuen his holy sprete in to you.

¹⁵ and counte the longsufferynge of oure LORDE youre saluacion, Euen as oure dearly beloued brother Paul (acordinge to the wyssdome geue vnto him) wrote vnto you: ¹⁶ yee speakinge therof allmost in all Epistles, wherin are many thinges harde to be vnderstonde, which they that are vnlerned and vnstable, peruerte, as they do the other scriptures also, to their awne danacion.