But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 7:8 in context
1 Corinthians 7:5–11
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Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
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Yet 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.
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But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
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But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn with passion.
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But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
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(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
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