1 Corinthians 7:27
Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
In Context
26Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:12To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.
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 →