NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 27

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 7:24–30

24

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

25

Now 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.

26

Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is.

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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.

28

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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But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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and 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;

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