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1 Corinthians 7:9 KJV
1 Corinthians · chapter 7 · verse 9
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.1 Corinthians 7:9 · King James Version
1 Corinthians 7:9 in context
7For 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.
8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- cannotouno, not in direct questions expecting an affirmative answerG3756 →
- betterkreittōnmore useful, more serviceable, more advantageous, more excellentG2909 →
- marrygameōto lead in marriage, take to wife, to get married, to marry, to give one s self in…G1060 →
- burnpyroōto burn with fire, to set on fire, kindle, to be on fire, to burn, to be incensed…G4448 →
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The apostle comes now, as a faithful and skilful casuist, to answer some cases of conscience which the Corinthians had proposed to him. Those were things whereof they wrote to him, Co1 7:1. As the lips of ministers should keep knowledge, so the people should ask the law at their mouths.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9