1 Corinthians 7:32

But I would prefer you to be without worry. Whoever is without a wife is worried about the things of the Lord, as to how he may please God.

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In The King James Version

But 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:

In Context

31and those who use the things of this world, as if they were not using them. For the figure of this world is passing away.

33But whoever is with a wife is worried about the things of the world, as to how he may please his wife. And so, he is divided.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:22And whoever has received the seed among thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the falseness of riches suffocate the word, and he is effectively without fruit.

1 Timothy 5:5But she who is truly a widow and is destitute, let her hope in God, and let her be urgent in supplications and prayers, night and day.

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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