1 Corinthians 7:33

And he who hath a wife, is anxious about the world, how he may please his wife.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

In Context

32And therefore I wish you to be without solicitude. For he who hath not a wife, considereth the thing of his Lord, how he may please his Lord.

34There is a difference also between a wife and a maiden. She who is without a husband, thinketh of things pertaining to her Lord, that she may be holy in her body and in her spirit. But she who hath a husband, thinketh of things pertaining to the world, how she may please her husband.

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Cross References

Luke 14:20Another said: I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.

Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as the Messiah loved his church, and delivered himself up for it;

1 Thessalonians 4:11and that ye strive to be quiet, and to attend to your own affairs; and that ye labor with your own hands; as we directed you;

1 Peter 3:7And ye husbands, likewise, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, and hold them in honor, as the feebler vessels; because they also will inherit with you the gift of eternal life: and let not your prayers be hindered.

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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