Sinai1 Corinthians 7:27
American Standard Version
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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1 Corinthians 7:27 in other translations
Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
1 Corinthians 7:27 in context
- 25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.
- 26I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is.
- 27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
- 28But 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.
- 29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;