1Cor 7:35, 2Cor 1:23 | ESV | STEP | I say this for your own benefit , not to lay any restraint upon you , but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord .

1 Corinthians 7:35

35 I say this for your own benefit, ^anot to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

23 But ^bI call God to witness against me—it was ^cto spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.