King James Version (KJV)
1 Corinthians 7:27
“Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.”
Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 7
25
Now 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.
26
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.
27
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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.
29
But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
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