1 Corinthians 7:9
If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
In Context
8But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:28Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.
1 Corinthians 7:39A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.
1 Timothy 5:14I would therefore have the younger women marry, bear children, rule in domestic matters, and furnish the Adversary with no excuse for slander.
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 →