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1 Corinthians 7:32 (NIV)

I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord’s affairs—how he can please the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:33 (NIV)

But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife—

and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:35 (NIV)

I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:36 (NIV)

If anyone is worried that he might not be acting honorably toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if his passions are too strong and he feels he ought to marry, he should do as he wants. He is not sinning. They should get married.

1 Corinthians 7:37 (NIV)

But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin—this man also does the right thing.

1 Corinthians 7:38 (NIV)

So then, he who marries the virgin does right, but he who does not marry her does better.

1 Corinthians 7:39 (NIV)

A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:40 (NIV)

In my judgment, she is happier if she stays as she is—and I think that I too have the Spirit of God.

1 Kings 7:1 (NIV)

It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace.

1 Kings 7:2 (NIV)

He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high, with four rows of cedar columns supporting trimmed cedar beams.

1 Kings 7:3 (NIV)

It was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the columns—forty-five beams, fifteen to a row.

1 Kings 7:4 (NIV)

Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other.

1 Kings 7:5 (NIV)

All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other.

1 Kings 7:6 (NIV)

He made a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty wide. In front of it was a portico, and in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof.

1 Kings 7:7 (NIV)

He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge, and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.

1 Kings 7:8 (NIV)

And the palace in which he was to live, set farther back, was similar in design. Solomon also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.

1 Kings 7:9 (NIV)

All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and smoothed on their inner and outer faces.

1 Kings 7:10 (NIV)

The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits and some eight.

1 Kings 7:11 (NIV)

Above were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.

1 Kings 7:12 (NIV)

The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the Lord with its portico.

1 Kings 7:13 (NIV)

King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram,

1 Kings 7:14 (NIV)

whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.

1 Kings 7:15 (NIV)

He cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

1 Kings 7:16 (NIV)

He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits high.