1 Corinthians 7:9 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁹ But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ But if they have not self-control (restraint of their passions), they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame [with passion and tortured continually with ungratified desire].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Common English Bible

⁹ But if they can’t control themselves, they should get married, because it’s better to marry than to burn with passion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ But if they cannot restrain themselves, they should marry. For it is better to marry, than to be burned.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.

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Acts 19:36

Seeing then that these things cannot be contradicted, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a girl marries she does not sin. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

1 Corinthians 7:36

If any one thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If the husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor,

1 Timothy 5:11

But refuse to enrol younger widows; for when they grow wanton against Christ they desire to marry,

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, rule their households, and give the enemy no occasion to revile us.