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1 Corinthians 7:27

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Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

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1 Corinthians 7:27 in other translations

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

1 Corinthians 7:27 · American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 7:27 in context

  1. 25Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
  2. 26Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
  3. 27Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
  4. 28But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
  5. 29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;