1 Corinthians 7:40 Cross References - MNT

⁴⁰ But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I, too, have the Spirit of God.

¹ Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

⁶ But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

⁸ But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

²⁵ I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence. ²⁶ I think then, that in view of the time of suffering now imminent, it is best for a man to remain as he is.

³⁵ It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service.

¹ Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? ² Even if I am not an apostle to others, to you at least I am; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. ³ This is my reply to my critics.

³⁶ What, was it from you that the word of God went forth, or to you only did it come? ³⁷ If any one thinks himself a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that what I am now writing you is a command of the Lord.

⁸ If, however, I were to boast more loudly concerning the authority which the Lord gave me (not to cast you down, but to build you up), I should have no cause for shame. ⁹ Let it not seem as if I were overawing you with my letters. ¹⁰ "His letters indeed," says one, "are mighty and forcible, but his personality is weak, and his speech contemptible."

¹¹ I am become a fool—you have forced me to; for you yourselves ought to have been my vindicators. In no respect am I inferior to these superapostolic apostles, even though I am nothing.

⁸ So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.

¹⁵ Regard our Lord's longsuffering as salvation; even as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him. ¹⁶ It is the same in all his letters when he speaks of these things. There are indeed some things in his letters hard to understand, which the ignorant and the shifty wrest, as also they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.