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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

1 Corinthians 7:34

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1 Corinthians 7:34 (WEB)

There 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.

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"Conceived by the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary"

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    “Mary is a virgin because her virginity is the sign of her faith "unadulterated by any doubt", and of her undivided gift of herself to God's will.” — Catechism footnote: LG 63; cf. l Cor 7:34-35.

Christ's Faithful - Hierarchy, Laity, Consecrated Life

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    “From apostolic times Christian virgins, called by the Lord to cling only to him with greater freedom of heart, body, and spirit, have decided with the Church's approval to live in a state of virginity "for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 19:12; cf. l Cor 7:34-36.

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Basil the Great

  • Basil the Great, Letters Letter 46

    “So I continually set forth the life of the unmarried maid, and described how “the unmarried” alone “careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 34.

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Augustine of Hippo

  • Augustine of Hippo, Of Holy Virginity Chapter 11

    “…out the multitude the love of one; nor, having now found him, orders herself for one, taking thought of the things of the world, “how to please her husband;” but hath so loved “Him of fair beauty above the sons of men,” as that, because she could not, even as Mary, conceive Him in her flesh, she hath kept her flesh…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 34

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  • Augustine of Hippo, Of Holy Virginity Chapter 22

    “And a woman unmarried and a virgin is divided; she that is unmarried is careful about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit: but she that is married is careful about the things of the world, how to please her husband.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 32, 33, 34

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  • Augustine of Hippo, On the Good of Marriage Chapter 10

    “…the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit: but she that is married, is anxious about the things of the world, how to please her husband.”” — editor's note: Ver. 29–34

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  • Augustine of Hippo, On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14

    “For neither doth that, which he saith of unmarried women, “She, that is unmarried, thinkest of the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit:” pertain unto all unmarried women: whereas there are certain widows who are dead, who live in delights.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 34

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  • Augustine of Hippo, On the Good of Marriage Chapter 27

    “Thus also let the unmarried woman, whose thoughts are of the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit, when she shall have heard that shameless questioner saying, What, then, are you better than Sara? answer, I am better, but than those, who are void of the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 34

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  • Augustine of Hippo, On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 3

    “Whence also, in what follows, under the one term “unmarried” he embraces both professions, saying, “She who is unmarried is careful of the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord: but she who is married is careful of the things of the world, how to please her husband.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 34

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  • Augustine of Hippo, On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 8

    “Whence, also, what the Apostle Paul said of the unmarried woman, “that she may be holy both in body and spirit;” we are not so to understand, as though a faithful woman being married and chaste, and according to the Scriptures subject unto her husband, be not holy in body, but only in spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 34

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  • Augustine of Hippo, On the Good of Widowhood Chapter 23

    “Therefore let us give ear unto the Apostle, “She who is unmarried,” saith he, “is careful about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit; but she who is married is careful about the things of the world, how to please her husband.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 34

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Tertullian

  • Tertullian, On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 8

    “For, since he says that married persons make this their solicitude, “how to please one another” (not, of course, morally, for a good solicitude he would not impugn); and (since), he wishes them to be understood to be solicitous about dress, and ornament,…” — editor's note: Sibi, “themselves,” i.e., mutually. See 1 Cor. vii. 32–35.

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  • Tertullian, On Monogamy Chapter 3

    “He renders reasons, likewise, for so advising: that the unmarried think about God, but the married about how, in (their) marriage, each may please his (partner).” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 32–34.

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  • Tertullian, On Patience Chapter 13

    “Further, if we set down in order the higher and happier grades of bodily patience, (we find that) it is she who is entrusted by holiness with the care of continence of the flesh: she keeps the widow, and sets on the virgin the seal and raises the self-made eunuch to the realms of heaven.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 34, 35.

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  • Tertullian, On Prayer Chapter 22

    “For even by this very fact, that he has not named “virgins” (as he does in another place where he is teaching touching marrying), he sufficiently predicates that his remark is made touching every woman, and touching the whole sex; and that there is…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 34 et seq.

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  • Tertullian, On the Apparel of Women II.3Book II

    “As if I were speaking to Gentiles, addressing you with a Gentile precept, and (one which is) common to all, (I would say,) “You are bound to please your husbands only.”” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 34.

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  • Tertullian, On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 4

    “Otherwise he could here also have marked the difference between virgin and woman, just as elsewhere he says, “Divided is the woman and the virgin.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 34.

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