1 Corinthians 7:26
“I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.”
Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
Cross-References
“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
“I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.”
“Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.”
“And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.”