1 Corinthians 7:9
Yet, if they persevere not, they should marry; for it is better to take a wife than to burn with concupiscence.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
In Context
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:28Yet, if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not; and if a virgin shall be to a husband, she sinneth not. Yet affliction in the body will be to them who are such; but I am sparing over you.
1 Corinthians 7:39The wife, so long as her husband liveth, is bound by the law; but if her husband shall die, she is free, that she may do what she willeth, only in our Lord.
1 Timothy 5:14I will therefore that those who are young should marry, and bear children, and conduct their households,
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 →