Matins Sermon for August 14, 2025 - 1 Corinthians 7:1-7

With Intrepid Heart - LCMS Sermons by Rev. Adam Moline

Preached by Rev Adam Moline

1 Corinthians 7:1-7

Principles for Marriage

[1] Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: [t]“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” [2] But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. [3] [u]The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. [4] For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. [5] [v]Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, [w]so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. [6] Now as a concession, [x]not a command, I say this.(1) [7] [y]I wish that all were [z]as I myself am. But [a]each has his own gift from God, [b]one of one kind and one of another.

Footnotes

(1) Or *I say this:*

Cross-references

[t]: ver. 8, 26

[u]: Ex. 21:10

[v]: [Ex. 19:15; 1 Sam. 21:4; Eccles. 3:5; Zech. 12:12-14]

[w]: 1 Thess. 3:5

[x]: ver. 12, 25; 2 Cor. 8:8; [ver. 10, 40]

[y]: [Acts 26:29]

[z]: ver. 8; [ch. 9:5]

[a]: ch. 12:4, 11; 1 Pet. 4:10; [Rom. 12:6]

[b]: Matt. 19:11, 12

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