1 Corinthians 7:33
that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how he may please his wife.
1770 John Worsley NT
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
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 up Himself for it:
1 Thessalonians 4:11and endeavour to be quiet, and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands,
1 Peter 3:7Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, yielding due respect to the wife as the weaker vessel, and as joint-heirs 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 →