1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

In Context

27Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

29But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:26Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is.

2 Corinthians 1:23But I call God for a witness to my soul, that to spare you, I didn’t come to Corinth.

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 →

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