1 Corinthians 7:32

So I want you to be free from all anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the Lord’s business, how he may please the Lord;

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

In Context

31and those who use the world as though using it sparingly. For the present phase of the world is passing away.

33but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind.

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Cross References

Matthew 13:22"And the seed sown among thorns is he who hears the word, but the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

1 Timothy 5:5Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to supplications and prayers, day and night.

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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