1 Corinthians 7:33
But 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.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
In Context
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:1And there occurred a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers, the Jews.
Luke 14:20And another said, ‘I have taken a wife, and therefore I am not able to go.’
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,
1 Thessalonians 4:11to choose work that allows you to be tranquil, and to carry out your business and to do your work with your own hands, just as we have instructed you,
1 Peter 3:7Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be 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 →