1E sobre as coisas que me escrevestes, bom é para o homem não tocar mulher. 2Mas por causa dos pecados sexuais, tenha cada um sua própria mulher, e cada uma tenha seu próprio marido. 3Que o marido satisfaça sua mulher como devido, e semelhantemente a mulher ao marido. 4A mulher não tem poder sobre seu próprio corpo, mas sim o marido; e também da mesma maneira o marido não tem poder sobre seu próprio corpo, mas sim a mulher. 5Não vos priveis um ao outro, a não ser por consentimento de ambos por algum tempo, para que vos ocupeis com jejum, e para a oração; e voltai-vos outra vez a se juntarem, para que Satanás não vos tente, por causa de vossa falta de domínio próprio. 6Mas isto vos digo como permissão, não como mandamento. 7Porque eu queria que todos fossem como eu mesmo; mas cada um tem seu próprio dom de Deus, um de um jeito assim, e outro de um jeito diferente. 8Mas digo aos solteiros, e às viúvas que lhes é bom se permanecessem como eu estou. 9Mas se não podem se conter, casem-se; porque é melhor se casar do que se inflamar. 10Porém aos casados eu mando, não eu, mas o Senhor, que a mulher não se separe do marido. 11E se se separar, fique sem casar, ou se reconcilie com o marido; e que o marido não deixe a mulher. 12Mas aos outros digo eu, não o Senhor: se algum irmão tem mulher descrente, e ela consente em habitar com ele, não a deixe. 13E se alguma mulher tem marido descrente, e ele consente em habitar com ela, não o deixe. 14Porque o marido descrente é santificado pela mulher; e a mulher descrente é santificada pelo marido. Pois de outra maneira vossos filhos seriam impuros; porém agora são santos. 15Mas se o descrente se separar, separe-se também . Em tal situação o irmão ou a irmã não estão sujeitos à servidão; mas Deus vos chamou para a paz. 16Porque o que tu sabes, mulher, se salvarás ao marido? Ou o que tu sabes, marido, se salvarás a mulher? 17Porém cada um ande assim como Deus lhe repartiu, cada um como o Senhor o chamou; e assim ordeno em todas as igrejas. 18É alguém chamado, estando já circunciso? Não desfaça a circuncisão. É alguém chamado estando ainda incircunciso? Não se circuncide. 19A circuncisão nada vale, e a incircuncisão nada vale; mas o que vale é a obediência aos mandamentos de Deus. 20Cada um fique no propósito em que foi chamado. 21Foste tu chamado sendo escravo? Não te preocupes com isto ; mas se tu podes te tornares livre, aproveita. 22Porque o que foi chamado no Senhor enquanto era escravo, para o Senhor é livre; da mesma maneira também, o que foi chamado, sendo livre, se torna escravo de Cristo. 23Vós fostes comprados por alto preço; portanto não vos façais escravos dos seres humanos. 24Irmãos, cada um continue com Deus no estado em que foi chamado. 25E quanto às virgens, não tenho mandamento do Senhor; porém eu dou minha opinião, dado que tenho recebido misericórdia do Senhor para que eu seja confiável. 26Considero pois isto como bom, por causa da necessidade atual, que é bom à pessoa continuar assim como está. 27Estás ligado à mulher, não busques se separar. Estás livre de mulher, não busques mulher. 28Mas se também te casares, não pecas; e se a virgem se casar, não peca. Porém os tais terão aflições na carne, que eu gostaria de livrá-los. 29Porém digo isto, irmãos, porque o tempo que resta é breve; para que também os que tem mulheres, sejam como se não as tivessem; 30E os que choram, como se não chorassem; e os que se alegram, como se não se alegrassem; e os que compram, como se não possuíssem. 31E os que usam das coisas deste mundo, como se delas não abusassem; porque a aparência deste mundo é passageira. 32E eu queria que estivésseis sem preocupações. O solteiro se preocupa com as coisas do Senhor, como irá agradar ao Senhor; 33Porém o que é casado se preocupa com as coisas do mundo, como irá agradar à mulher. 34A mulher casada e a virgem são diferentes: a que está para casar tem preocupação com as coisas do Senhor, para ser santa, tanto de corpo como de Espírito; mas a casada tem preocupação com as coisas do mundo, como irá agradar ao marido. 35Porém digo isto para vosso próprio proveito; não para vos enlaçar, mas para vos guiar ao que é decente, e servirem ao Senhor sem distração. 36Mas se alguém lhe parece que indecentemente trata com sua virgem, se ela passar da idade da juventude, e assim convier se fazer, que tal faça o que quiser, não peca, casem-se. 37Porém o que está firme em seu coração, não tendo necessidade, mas tem poder sobre sua própria vontade, e isto decidiu em seu próprio coração, de guardar sua virgem, faz bem. 38Portanto, o que a dá em casamento, faz bem; mas o que não a dá em casamento, faz melhor. 39A mulher casada está ligada pela Lei todo o tempo em que seu marido vive; mas se seu marido morrer, fica livre para se casar com quem quiser, contanto que seja no Senhor. 40Porém mais bem-aventurada é, se assim continuar, segundo minha opinião. E também eu penso, que tenho o Espírito de Deus.
1Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife. 5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. 7Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. 8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. 9But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn. 10But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband 11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife. 12But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her. 13The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband. 14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. 15Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace. 16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? 17Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies. 18Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. 19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called. 21Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. 22For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant. 23You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men. 24Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God. 25Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. 26I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is. 27Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife. 28But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you. 29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none; 30and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess; 31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away. 32But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; 33but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. 34There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband. 35This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction. 36But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry. 37But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well. 38So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better. 39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord. 40But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.
1Aangaande nu de dingen, waarvan gij mij geschreven hebt: het is een mens goed geen vrouw aan te raken. 2Maar om der hoererijen wil zal een iegelijk man zijn eigen vrouw hebben, en een iegelijke vrouw zal haar eigen man hebben. 3De man zal aan de vrouw de schuldige goedwilligheid betalen; en desgelijks ook de vrouw aan den man. 4De vrouw heeft de macht niet over haar eigen lichaam, maar de man; en desgelijks ook de man heeft de macht niet over zijn eigen lichaam, maar de vrouw. 5Onttrekt u elkander niet, tenzij dan met beider toestemming voor een tijd, opdat gij u tot vasten en bidden moogt verledigen; en komt wederom bijeen, opdat u de satan niet verzoeke, omdat gij u niet kunt onthouden. 6Doch dit zeg ik uit toelating, niet uit bevel. 7Want ik wilde, dat alle mensen waren, gelijk als ikzelf ben; maar een iegelijk heeft zijn eigen gave van God, de een wel aldus, maar de andere alzo. 8Doch ik zeg den ongetrouwden, en den weduwen: Het is hun goed, indien zij blijven, gelijk als ik. 9Maar indien zij zich niet kunnen onthouden, dat zij trouwen; want het is beter te trouwen dan te branden. 10Doch den getrouwden gebiede niet ik, maar de Heere, dat de vrouw van den man niet scheide. 11En indien zij ook scheidt, dat zij ongetrouwd blijve, of met den man verzoene; en dat de man de vrouw niet verlate. 12Maar den anderen zeg ik, niet de Heere: Indien enig broeder een ongelovige vrouw heeft, en dezelve tevreden is bij hem te wonen, dat hij ze niet verlate. 13En een vrouw, die een ongelovige man heeft, en hij tevreden is bij haar te wonen, dat zij hem niet verlate. 14Want de ongelovige man is geheiligd door de vrouw, en de ongelovige vrouw is geheiligd door den man; want anders waren uw kinderen onrein, maar nu zijn zij heilig. 15Maar indien de ongelovige scheidt, dat hij scheide. De broeder of de zuster wordt in zodanige gevallen niet dienstbaar gemaakt; maar God heeft ons tot vrede geroepen. 16Want wat weet gij, vrouw, of gij den man zult zalig maken? Of wat weet gij, man, of gij de vrouw zult zalig maken? 17Doch gelijk God aan een iegelijk heeft uitgedeeld, gelijk de Heere een iegelijk geroepen heeft, dat hij alzo wandele; en alzo verordene ik in al de Gemeenten. 18Is iemand, besneden zijnde, geroepen, die late zich geen voorhuid aantrekken; is iemand, in de voorhuid zijnde, geroepen, die late zich niet besnijden. 19De besnijdenis is niets, en de voorhuid is niets, maar de onderhouding der geboden Gods. 20Een iegelijk blijve in die beroeping, daar hij in geroepen is. 21Zijt gij, een dienstknecht zijnde, geroepen, laat u dat niet bekommeren; maar indien gij ook kunt vrij worden, gebruik dat liever. 22Want die in den Heere geroepen is, een dienstknecht zijnde, die is een vrijgelatene des Heeren; desgelijks ook, die vrij zijnde geroepen is, die is een dienstknecht van Christus. 23Gij zijt duur gekocht, wordt geen dienstknechten der mensen. 24Een iegelijk, waarin hij geroepen is, broeders, die blijve in hetzelve bij God. 25Aangaande de maagden nu, heb ik geen bevel des Heeren; maar ik zeg mijn gevoelen, als die barmhartigheid van den Heere gekregen heb, om getrouw te zijn. 26Ik houde dan dit goed te zijn, om den aanstaanden nood, dat het, zeg ik, den mens goed is alzo te zijn. 27Zijt gij aan een vrouw verbonden, zoek geen ontbinding; zijt gij ongebonden van een vrouw, zoek geen vrouw. 28Maar indien gij ook trouwt, gij zondigt niet; en indien een maagd trouwt, zij zondigt niet. Doch dezulken zullen verdrukking hebben in het vlees; en ik spare ulieden. 29Maar dit zeg ik, broeders, dat de tijd voorts kort is; opdat ook die vrouwen hebben, zouden zijn als niet hebbende; 30En die wenen, als niet wenende; en die blijde zijn, als niet blijde zijnde; en die kopen, als niet bezittende; 31En die deze wereld gebruiken, als niet misbruikende; want de gedaante dezer wereld gaat voorbij. 32En ik wil, dat gij zonder bekommernis zijt. De ongetrouwde bekommert zich met de dingen des Heeren, hoe hij den Heere zal behagen; 33Maar die getrouwd is, bekommert zich met de dingen der wereld, hoe hij de vrouw zal behagen. 34Een vrouw en een maagd zijn onderscheiden. De ongetrouwde bekommert zich met de dingen des Heeren, opdat zij heilig zij, beide aan lichaam en aan geest; maar die getrouwd is, bekommert zich met de dingen der wereld, hoe zij den man zal behagen. 35En dit zeg ik tot uw eigen voordeel; niet opdat ik een strik over u zou werpen, maar om u te leiden tot hetgeen wel voegt, en bekwaam is, om den Heere wel aan te hangen, zonder herwaarts en derwaarts getrokken te worden. 36Maar zo iemand acht, dat hij ongevoegelijk handelt met zijn maagd, indien zij over den jeugdigen tijd gaat, en het alzo moet geschieden; die doe wat hij wil, hij zondigt niet; dat zij trouwen. 37Doch die vast staat in zijn hart, geen noodzaak hebbende, maar macht heeft over zijn eigen wil, en dit in zijn hart besloten heeft, dat hij zijn maagd zal bewaren, die doet wel. 38Alzo dan, die haar ten huwelijk uitgeeft, die doet wel; en die ze ten huwelijk niet uitgeeft, die doet beter. 39Een vrouw is door de wet verbonden, zo langen tijd haar man leeft; maar indien haar man ontslapen is, zo is zij vrij, om te trouwen, dien zij wil, alleenlijk in den Heere. 40Maar zij is gelukkiger, indien zij alzo blijft, naar mijn gevoelen. En ik meen ook den Geest Gods te hebben.
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