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1 Corinthians 7:28 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 7 · verse 28
But 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.1 Corinthians 7:28 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 7:28 in context
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;
30And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- Neverthelessdebut, moreover, and, etcG1161 →
- troublethlipsisa pressing, pressing together, pressure, metaph. oppression, affliction, tribulation…G2347 →
- sinnedhamartanōto be without a share in, to miss the mark, to err, be mistaken, to miss or wander from…G264 →
- virginparthenosa virgin, a marriageable maiden, a woman who has never had sexual intercourse with a man…G3933 →
- marrygameōto lead in marriage, take to wife, to get married, to marry, to give one s self in…G1060 →
- fleshsarxflesh of both man and beasts, the body, the body of a man, used of natural or physical…G4561 →
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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