1 Corinthians 7:9
If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.
Montgomery 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
8But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:28Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldy affairs, and I wish to spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:39A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:14It is my wish, then, that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule their houses, and give no occasion to our adversary for railing.
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 →