1 Corinthians 7:9

Weymouth NT

If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

Cross References

Acts 19:36

These facts, then, being unquestioned, it becomes you to maintain your self-control and not act recklessly.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

1 Corinthians 7:28

Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

1 Corinthians 7:36

If, however, a father thinks he is acting unbecomingly towards his still unmarried daughter if she be past the bloom of her youth, and so the matter is urgent, let him do what she desires; he commits no sin; she and her suitor should be allowed to marry.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

1 Timothy 5:11

But the younger widows you must not enrol; for as soon as they begin to chafe against the yoke of Christ, they want to marry,

1 Timothy 5:14

I would therefore have the younger women marry, bear children, rule in domestic matters, and furnish the Adversary with no excuse for slander.