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.
1 Corinthians 7:28 in context
1 Corinthians 7:25–31
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.
Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
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.
But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
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;
and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
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