1 Corinthians 7:9
and if they have not continence — let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
In Context
8And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I [am];
10and to the married I announce — not I, but the Lord — let not a wife separate from a husband:
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:28But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.
1 Corinthians 7:39A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will — only in the Lord;
1 Timothy 5:14I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;
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 →