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1 Corinthians 7:27 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 7 · verse 27
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.1 Corinthians 7:27 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 7:27 in context
25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
29But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- loosedlyōto loose any person tied or fastened, bandages of the feet, the shoes,, of a husband and…G3089 →
- bounddeōto bind tie, fasten, to bind, fasten with chains, to throw into chains, metaph., Satan is…G1210 →
- wifegynēa woman of any age, whether a virgin, or married, or a widow, a wife, of a betrothed womanG1135 →
- seekzēteōto seek in order to find, to seek a thing, to seek [in order to find out] by thinking…G2212 →
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The apostle here resumes his discourse, and gives directions to virgins how to act, concerning which we may take notice, I. Of the manner wherein he introduces them: "Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord, Co1 7:25.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 25-35