1 Corinthians 7:33
but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.
Darby Translation
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 was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Luke 14:20And another said, I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,
1 Thessalonians 4:11and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged you,
1 Peter 3:7[Ye] husbands likewise, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, as with a weaker, [even] the female, vessel, giving [them] honour, as also fellow-heirs of [the] grace of life, that your prayers be not 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 →