1 Corinthians 7:6

But I say this by way of permission, not of command:

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

In Context

5Do not withdraw from one another, unless by consent for a season, that ye may attend to fasting and prayer: and come together again, least Satan tempt you through your incontinency.

7for I could wish that all men were as I myself am; but every man hath his proper gift from God, one of one kind and another of another?

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:25But concerning single persons I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgement as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

2 Corinthians 11:17What I speak I speak not as from the Lord, but as in weakness, in this confidence of boasting.

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 →

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