1 Corinthians 7:27

Are you bound to a wife? Seek not a separation. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

In Context

26I think, then, that this is good for the present affliction―that it is good for a man to be as he is.

28But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:12But to the rest, I, and not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

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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