1 Corinthians 7:34

There is a real difference between married and unmarried women: the single woman can focus on being holy for the Lord, while the married woman rightly attends to pleasing her husband. Both states involve legitimate but different priorities.

Cross-references · 12

• Luke 10:40–42But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”
• 1 Cor 6:20for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
• Luke 2:36–37There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
• Rom 12:1–2Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
• Rom 6:13Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
• Phil 1:20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
• 2 Cor 11:28Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.
• 1 Th 5:23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Titus 3:8This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
• 2 Cor 7:11–12For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.
• 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
• 1 Tim 3:5(but if a man doesn’t know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

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