1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
In Context
8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
10But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:28But 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.
1 Corinthians 7:39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:14I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
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 →