1 Corinthians 7:33
But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Updated King James Version
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
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:1And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Luke 14:20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
Ephesians 5:25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Thessalonians 4:11And that all of you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
1 Peter 3:7Likewise, all of you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not 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 →