1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you take a wife, you have not sinned. And if a virgin has married, she has not sinned. Even so, such as these will have the tribulation of the flesh. But I would spare you from this.

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In The King James Version

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

In Context

27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free of a wife? Do not seek a wife.

29And so, this is what I say, brothers: The time is short. What remains of it is such that: those who have wives should be as if they had none;

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:26Therefore, I consider this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be such as I am.

2 Corinthians 1:23But I call God as a witness to my soul, that I was lenient with you, in that I did not return to Corinth:

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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