1 Corinthians 7:6

But this I say by permission, not by commandment:

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

In Context

5Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

7for I could wish that all men were even as I am myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:25But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

2 Corinthians 11:17What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:2-10

Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except… Read the whole commentary →

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