1Cor 7:17 Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:17
17: You must accept whatever situation the Lord has put you in, and continue on as you were when God first called you. This is my rule for all the churches.
1 Corinthians 4:17
- That is the very reason I am sending Timothy--to help you do this. For he is my beloved and trustworthy child in the Lord. He will remind you of what I teach about Christ Jesus in all the churches wherever I go.
1 Corinthians 7:24
- So, dear brothers and sisters, whatever situation you were in when you became a believer, stay there in your new relationship with God.
2 Corinthians 11:28
- Then, besides all this, I have the daily burden of how the churches are getting along.
Romans 12:3
- As God's messenger, I give each of you this warning: Be honest in your estimate of yourselves, measuring your value by how much faith God has given you.
- Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function,
- so it is with Christ's body. We are all parts of his one body, and each of us has different work to do. And since we are all one body in Christ, we belong to each other, and each of us needs all the others.
- God has given each of us the ability to do certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out when you have faith that God is speaking through you.
- If your gift is that of serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, do a good job of teaching.
1 Corinthians 7:20
- You should continue on as you were when God called you.
- Are you a slave? Don't let that worry you--but if you get a chance to be free, take it.
1 Corinthians 7:18
- For instance, a man who was circumcised before he became a believer should not try to reverse it. And the man who was uncircumcised when he became a believer should not be circumcised now.
2 Corinthians 8:18
- We are also sending another brother with Titus. He is highly praised in all the churches as a preacher of the Good News.
1 Corinthians 7:7
- I wish everyone could get along without marrying, just as I do. But we are not all the same. God gives some the gift of marriage, and to others he gives the gift of singleness.
Matthew 19:12
- Some are born as eunuchs, some have been made that way by others, and some choose not to marry for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let anyone who can, accept this statement."
1 Corinthians 14:33
- For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the other churches.
1 Corinthians 16:1
- Now about the money being collected for the Christians in Jerusalem: You should follow the same procedures I gave to the churches in Galatia.
1 Peter 4:10
- God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God's generosity can flow through you.
- Are you called to be a speaker? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Are you called to help others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then God will be given glory in everything through Jesus Christ. All glory and power belong to him forever and ever. Amen.