1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
In Context
8I say then to the unmarried and the widows, that it is becoming them if they abide as I am.
10But to the married not I command, but the Lord, That the wife be not separated from the husband:
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:28But if thou shouldst marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned; though such will have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is free to be married to whomsoever she will, but only in the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:14I would therefore have the younger widows to marry, bear children, govern their house, give no occasion to the adversary to bring a reproach on them.
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 →