King James Version (KJV)

1 Corinthians 7:8

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

Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 7

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

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.

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

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

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

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