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What I have just said is not meant as a command but as a suggestion. I would like everyone to be like me. However, each person has a special gift from God, and these gifts vary from person to person.

I say to those who are not married, especially to widows: It is good for you to stay single like me.

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I say this as a concession, not as a command.(A) I wish that all of you were as I am.(B) But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.(C)

Now to the unmarried[a] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:8 Or widowers