1 Corinthians 7:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I wish that all men were like I myself am [in this matter of self-control]. But each has his own special gift from God, one of this kind and one of another.

American Standard Version (1901)

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

Common English Bible

I wish all people were like me, but each has a particular gift from God: one has this gift, and another has that one.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For I would prefer it if you were all like myself. But each person has his proper gift from God: one in this way, yet another in that way.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that.

1 Corinthians 7:7 Cross References

Genesis 30:34

And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

Acts 26:29

And Paul said, I would to God, that whether with little or with much, not thou only, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except these bonds.

Romans 12:6

And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

1 Corinthians 12:11

but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.

1 Corinthians 12:4

Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

1 Corinthians 7:8

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

1 Corinthians 9:15

But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case: for it were good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

1 Corinthians 9:5

Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?