1 Corinthians 7:6

But this I say, as consenting [to], not as commanding [it].

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

In Context

5Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

7Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:25But concerning virgins, I have no commandment of [the] Lord; but I give my opinion, as having received mercy of [the] Lord to be faithful.

2 Corinthians 11:17What I speak I do not speak according to [the] Lord, but as in folly, in this confidence of boasting.

Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:2-10

Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except… Read the whole commentary →

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