1 Corinthians 7:25
As concernynge virgins I have no commaundment of the lorde: yet geve I counsell as one that hath obtayned mercye of the lorde to be faythfull.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
24Brethren let everye man wherin he is called therin abyde with God.
26I suppose that it is good for the present necessite. For it is good for a man so to be.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:6This I saye of faveour not of commaundement.
1 Corinthians 7:12To the remnaunt speake I and not the lorde. Yf eny brother have a wyfe that beleveth not yf she be content to dwell with him let him not put her awaye.
1 Corinthians 7:34There is difference bitwene a virgin and a wyfe. The single woman careth for the thinges of the lorde that she maye be pure both in body and also in sprete But she that is maryed careth for the thinges of the worlde how she maye please her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:40But she is happiar yf she so abyde in my iudgmet And I thinke verely that I have the sprete of God.
2 Corinthians 2:17For we are not as many are which choppe and chaunge with the worde of God: but even oute of purenes and by the power of God and in the sight of God so speake we in Christ.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:18-25
Christian Contentment. ( a. d. 57.) 17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches. 18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for… Read the whole commentary →