1 Corinthians 7

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WHY THIS PASSAGE IS HERE

Paul addresses marriage, singleness, desire, present distress, and the life each believer has before the Lord. This chapter gives the larger pastoral framework for the article’s tension between honoring marriage and receiving singleness without shame.

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