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1 Corinthians 7:27

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

Verse in context โ€” 1 Corinthians 7

25

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.

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.

27

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

28

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.

29

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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