1 Corinthians 7:6

But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

In Context

5Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

7I would that every one lived as I do; but each man has his own special gift from God, one this, another that.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:25I have no command from the Lord to give you concerning unmarried women; but I give you my opinion, and it is that of a man who, through the Lord’s mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

2 Corinthians 11:17What I am about to say I am not speaking by the Lord’s command, but as it were in pure folly, in this boldness of boasting.

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 →

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