1 Corinthians 7:7
For I wolde that all men were as I my selfe am: but every man hath his proper gyfte of God one after this maner another after that.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6This I saye of faveour not of commaundement.
8I saye vnto the vnmaried men and widdowes: it is good for them yf they abyde even as I do.
Cross References
Matthew 19:11He sayde vnto them: all me can not awaye with that sayinge save they to whom it is geven.
Romans 12:6Seynge that we have dyvers gyftes accordynge to the grace that is geven vnto vs: yf eny man have the gyft of prophesye let him have it that it be agreynge vnto the fayth.
1 Corinthians 9:5Ether have we not power to leade about a sister to wyfe as wel as other Apostles and as the brethren of the lorde and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 12:4Ther are diversities of gyftes verely yet but one sprete.
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 →