1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Webster Bible
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 say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.
10And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:28But if thou marry, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:14I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
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 →