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1 Corinthians 7:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is. "

1 Corinthians 7:26

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

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 Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain 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.

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1 Corinthians 7:1

"Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman."

1 Corinthians 7:2

"But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband."

1 Corinthians 7:3

"Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband."

1 Corinthians 7:4

"The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does."

1 Corinthians 7:5

"Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control."

1 Corinthians 7:6

"But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment."

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