1 Corinthians 7:9
but if they cannot control themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
In Context
8I say also to the unmarried and the widows, it is good for them to remain as I am;
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:28But if thou hast married, thou hast committed no sin; and if a virgin hath married, she hath committed no sin. Such, however, will have trouble in the flesh, which I desire to spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:39The wife is bound to her husband as long as he liveth; but if her husband die, she is free to marry whom she will, only in the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:14I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, guide the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
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 →