1 Corinthians 7:6

But this I say, as to weak persons, not of positive precept.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Therefore, deprive not one another, except when ye both consent, at the time ye devote yourselves to fasting and prayer; and return again to the same disposition, that Satan tempt you not because of the concupiscence of your body.

7For I would that all men might be like me in purity. But every man is endowed with his gift of God; one thus, and another so.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:25And concerning virginity, I have no precept from God; but I give counsels as a man who hath obtained mercy from God to be a believer.

2 Corinthians 11:17What I am now saying, I say not in our Lord, but as in folly, in this matter of glorying.

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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