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1 Corinthians 7:9

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But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

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1 Corinthians 7:9 in other translations

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

1 Corinthians 7:9 · American Standard Version

1 Corinthians 7:9 in context

  1. 7Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
  2. 8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
  3. 9But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
  4. 10But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
  5. 11(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.