1 Corinthians 7:25-31
1599 Geneva Bible
25 [a]Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give mine [b]advise, as [c]one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
26 I suppose then [d]this to be good for the [e]present necessity: I mean 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 if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not: and if a virgin marry, she sinneth not: nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the [f]flesh: but I [g]spare you.
29 And this I say, brethren, because the time is [h]short, hereafter that both they which have wives, be as though they had none:
30 And they that [i]weep, as though they wept not: and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not: and they that buy, as though they possessed not:
31 And they that use this [j]world, as though they used it not: for the [k]fashion of this world goeth away.
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- 1 Corinthians 7:25 He enjoineth virginity to no man, yet he persuadeth and praiseth it for another respect, to wit, both for the necessity of the present time, because the faithful could scarce abide in any place, and use the commodities of this present life, and therefore such as were not troubled with families, might be the readier: and also for the cares of this life, which marriage draweth with it necessity, so that they cannot but have their minds distracteth: and this hath place in women especially.
- 1 Corinthians 7:25 The circumstances considered, this I counsel you.
- 1 Corinthians 7:25 It is I that speak this which I am minded to speak: and the truth is, I am a man, but yet worthy credit, for I have obtained of the Lord to be such an one.
- 1 Corinthians 7:26 To remain a virgin.
- 1 Corinthians 7:26 For the necessity which the Saints are daily subject unto, who are continually tossed up and down, so that their estate may seem most unfit for marriage, were it not that the weakness of the flesh enforced them to it.
- 1 Corinthians 7:28 By the (flesh) he understandeth what things forever belong to this present life, for marriage bringeth with it many discommodities: so that he bendeth more to a sole life, not because it is a service more agreeable to God than marriage is, but for those discommodities, which (if it were possible) he would wish all men to be void of, that they might give themselves to God only.
- 1 Corinthians 7:28 I would your weakness were provided for.
- 1 Corinthians 7:29 For we are now in the latter end of the world.
- 1 Corinthians 7:30 By weeping, the Hebrews understand all adversity, and be joy, all prosperity.
- 1 Corinthians 7:31 Those things which God giveth us here.
- 1 Corinthians 7:31 The guise, the shape, and fashion: whereby he showeth us, that there is nothing in this world that continueth.
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