◄ 1 Corinthians 7:32 ►
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Good News Translation
I would like you to be free from worry. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's work, because he is trying to please the Lord.

New Revised Standard Version
I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord;

Contemporary English Version
I want all of you to be free from worry. An unmarried man worries about how to please the Lord.

New American Bible
I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God.

I would.

Psalm 55:22 Cast thy care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall not suffer the just to waver for ever.

Matthew 6:25-34 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? . . .

Matthew 13:22 And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.

Philippians 4:6 Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

He that.

1 Timothy 5:5 But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God and continue in supplications and prayers night and day.

that belong to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:34 And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her husband.

Context
The Unmarried and Widowed
…31And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the fashion of this world passeth away. 32But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God. 33But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided.…
Cross References
Mark 4:19
And the cares of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts after other things entering in choke the word, and it is made fruitless.

John 10:13
And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

1 Corinthians 7:33
But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided.

1 Timothy 5:5
But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God and continue in supplications and prayers night and day.

1 Corinthians 7:31
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