Bible Cross References
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1 Corinthians 7:1
Now, to deal with the matters you wrote about. A man does well not to marry.
1 Corinthians 7:8
Now, to the unmarried and to the widows I say that it would be better for you to continue to live alone as I do.
1 Corinthians 7:28
But if you do marry, you haven't committed a sin; and if an unmarried woman marries, she hasn't committed a sin. But I would rather spare you the everyday troubles that married people will have.
1 Corinthians 7:35-38
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I am saying this because I want to help you. I am not trying to put restrictions on you. Instead, I want you to do what is right and proper, and to give yourselves completely to the Lord's service without any reservation.
36
In the case of an engaged couple who have decided not to marry: if the man feels that he is not acting properly toward the young woman and if his passions are too strong and he feels that they ought to marry, then they should get married, as he wants to. There is no sin in this.
37
But if a man, without being forced to do so, has firmly made up his mind not to marry, and if he has his will under complete control and has already decided in his own mind what to do---then he does well not to marry the young woman.
38
So the man who marries does well, but the one who doesn't marry does even better.
Jeremiah 16:2-4
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"Do not marry or have children in a place like this.
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I will tell you what is going to happen to the children who are born here and to their parents.
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They will die of terrible diseases, and no one will mourn for them or bury them. Their bodies will lie like piles of manure on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation, and their bodies will be food for the birds and the wild animals.
Matthew 24:19
How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies!
Luke 21:23
How terrible it will be in those days for women who are pregnant and for mothers with little babies! Terrible distress will come upon this land, and God's punishment will fall on this people.
Luke 23:28
Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem! Don't cry for me, but for yourselves and your children.
Luke 23:29
For the days are coming when people will say, 'How lucky are the women who never had children, who never bore babies, who never nursed them!'
1 Peter 4:17
The time has come for judgment to begin, and God's own people are the first to be judged. If it starts with us, how will it end with those who do not believe the Good News from God?