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1 Corinthians 7:28

World English Bible

But 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.

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1 Corinthians 7:28 in other translations

But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:28 · American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 7:28 in context

  1. 26Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
  2. 27Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
  3. 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.
  4. 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;
  5. 30and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;