1 Corinthians 7:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

In every church I tell the people to stay as they were when the Lord Jesus chose them and God called them to be his own. Now I say the same thing to you.

Cross References

Matthew 19:12

Some people are unable to marry because of birth defects or because of what someone has done to their bodies. Others stay single for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Anyone who can accept this teaching should do so.”

1 Corinthians 10:32

Don't cause problems for Jews or Greeks or anyone else who belongs to God's church.

1 Corinthians 11:16

This is how things are done in all God's churches, and that's why none of you should argue about what I have said.

1 Corinthians 11:34

If you really are hungry, you can eat at home. Then you won't condemn yourselves when you meet together. After I arrive, I will instruct you about the other matters.

1 Corinthians 14:33

God wants everything to be done peacefully and in order. When God's people meet in church,

1 Corinthians 16:1

When you collect money for God's people, I want you to do exactly what I told the churches in Galatia to do.

1 Corinthians 4:17

That's why I sent Timothy to you. I love him like a son, and he is a faithful servant of the Lord. Timothy will tell you what I do to follow Christ and how it agrees with what I always teach about Christ in every church.

1 Corinthians 7:18

If you are already circumcised, don't try to change it. If you are not circumcised, don't get circumcised.

1 Corinthians 7:24

Stay what you were when God chose you.

1 Corinthians 7:7

I wish that all of you were like me, but God has given different gifts to each of us.

2 Corinthians 11:28

Besides everything else, each day I am burdened down, worrying about all the churches.

2 Corinthians 8:18

With Titus we are also sending one of the Lord's followers who is well known in every church for spreading the good news.

Galatians 1:22

But no one who belonged to Christ's churches in Judea had ever seen me in person.

1 Thessalonians 2:14

My friends, you did just like God's churches in Judea and like the other followers of Christ Jesus there. And so, you were ill-treated by your own people, in the same way they were ill-treated by their people.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

That's why we boast about you to all God's churches. We tell them how patient you are and how you keep on having faith, even though you are going through a lot of trouble and suffering.