1 Corinthians 7:7
for 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?
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
6But I say this by way of permission, not of command:
8Now to the unmarried and widows I say, it is good for them to continue so, as I do.
Cross References
Matthew 19:11but He said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying of yours, but those only who have the gift of continence:
Romans 12:6But having different gifts, according to the grace conferred upon us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith:
1 Corinthians 9:5we not power to lead about with us a sister a wife as well as other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
1 Corinthians 12:4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit: and there are different offices, but the same Lord:
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 →