1 Corinthians 7:33

while the married man is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please his wife;

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

32I want you to be free from anxiety. The unmarried man is anxious about the Master’s Cause, desiring to please him;

34and so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master’s Cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.

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Cross References

Luke 14:20while the next said ‘I am just married, and for that reason I am unable to come.’

Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for her,

1 Thessalonians 4:11Make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we directed you;

1 Peter 3:7Again, those of you who are married men should live considerately with their wives, showing due regard to their sex, as weaker than their own, and not forgetting that they share with you in the gift of Life. Then you will be able to pray without hindrance.

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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