Counsel Concerning Virgins and the Present Distress

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Nowe concerning virgines, I haue no commandement of the Lord: but I giue mine aduise, as one that hath obtained mercie of the Lord to be faithfull.

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I suppose then this to bee good for the present necessitie: I meane that it is good for a man so to be.

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Art thou bounde vnto a wife? seeke not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? seeke not a wife.

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But if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not: and if a virgine marrie, shee sinneth not: neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

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And this I say, brethren, because the time is short, hereafter that both they which haue wiues, be as though they had none:

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And they that weepe, as though they wept not: and they that reioyce, as though they reioyced not: and they that bye, as though they possessed not:

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And they that vse this worlde, as though they vsed it not: for the fashion of this worlde goeth away.

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And I would haue you without care. The vnmaried careth for the things of the Lord, howe he may please the Lord.

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But hee that is maried, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

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There is difference also betweene a virgine and a wife: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirite: but shee that is maried, careth for the things of the worlde, howe shee may please her husband.

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And this I speake for your owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, but that yee follow that, which is honest, and that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation.

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