1 Corinthians 7:8
But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
In Context
9But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:1Now concerning the thing whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:26I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians 7:34And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
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 →