1 Corinthians 7:9
But and yf they cannot abstayne let them mary. For it is better to mary then to burne.
Tyndale 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
8I saye vnto the vnmaried men and widdowes: it is good for them yf they abyde even as I do.
10Vnto the maryed commaunde not I but the Lorde: that the wyfe separate not her selfe from the man.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:28But and yf thou take a wyfe thou synnest not. Lykwyse if a virgin mary she synneth not. Neverthelesse soche shall have trouble in their flesshe: but I faver you.
1 Corinthians 7:39The wyfe is bounde to the lawe as longe as her husband liveth If her husbande slepe she is at liberte to mary with whom she wyll only in the lorde.
1 Timothy 5:14I will therfore that the yonger weme mary and beare childre and gyde the housse and geve none occasion to the adversary to speake evill
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 →