1 Corinthians 7:8
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
In Context
9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:1Now concerning the things whereof all of you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians 7:34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: (o. pneuma) but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
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 →