1 Corinthians 7:33
But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 5:1Now 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 therefore I cannot come.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it:
1 Thessalonians 4:11And that you use your endeavour to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without; and that you want nothing of any man's.
1 Peter 3:7Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel, and as to the co-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 →