World English Bible

1 Corinthians 7:26

“I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.”

Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 7

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

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