1 Corinthians 7:39
A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in [the] Lord.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
38So that he that marries himself does well; and he that does not marry does better.
Cross References
Genesis 6:2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
Malachi 2:11Judah hath dealt unfaithfully, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the sanctuary of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange God.
1 Corinthians 7:10But to the married I enjoin, not *I*, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;
2 Corinthians 6:14Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation [is there] between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:37-39
Prudential Directions to the Unmarried. ( a. d. 57.) 36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. 37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. 38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in… Read the whole commentary →