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1 Corinthians 7:33

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

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In Context

32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 5:1And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Luke 14:20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

1 Thessalonians 4:11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

1 Peter 3:7Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:26-36

Prudential Directions to Virgins. ( a. d. 57.) 25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. 26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. 27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall… Read the whole commentary →

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