“I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.”

1 Corinthians 7:8 (KJV) |

1 Corinthians 7:8

From 1 Corinthians 7, in the Book of 1 Corinthians (New Testament).

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But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

7

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

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I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

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But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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