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

28 But if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not: and if a virgin marry, she sinneth not: nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the [a]flesh: but I [b]spare you.

29 And this I say, brethren, because the time is [c]short, hereafter that both they which have wives, be as though they had none:

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:28 By the (flesh) he understandeth what things forever belong to this present life, for marriage bringeth with it many discommodities: so that he bendeth more to a sole life, not because it is a service more agreeable to God than marriage is, but for those discommodities, which (if it were possible) he would wish all men to be void of, that they might give themselves to God only.
  2. 1 Corinthians 7:28 I would your weakness were provided for.
  3. 1 Corinthians 7:29 For we are now in the latter end of the world.

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