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1 Corinthians 7:6

This I saye of faveour not of commaundement.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

In Context

5Withdrawe not youre selves one from another excepte it be with consent for a tyme for to geve youre selves to fastynge and prayer. And afterwarde come agayne to the same thynge lest Satan tempt you for youre incontinencye.

7For I wolde that all men were as I my selfe am: but every man hath his proper gyfte of God one after this maner another after that.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:25As concernynge virgins I have no commaundment of the lorde: yet geve I counsell as one that hath obtayned mercye of the lorde to be faythfull.

2 Corinthians 11:17That I speake I speake it not after the wayes of the lorde: but as it were folysshly whill we are now come to bostynge.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:2-10

Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except… Read the whole commentary →

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