1 Corinthians 7:26
Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
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.
Cross References
Matthew 24:19But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
Luke 23:28But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
1 Corinthians 7:8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
1 Corinthians 7:35This I say for your own benefit, not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
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 →