◄ 1 Corinthians 7:26 ►
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Good News Translation
Considering the present distress, I think it is better for a man to stay as he is.

New Revised Standard Version
I think that, in view of the impending crisis, it is well for you to remain as you are.

Contemporary English Version
We are now going through hard times, and I think it is best for you to stay as you are.

New American Bible
So this is what I think best because of the present distress: that it is a good thing for a person to remain as he is.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be.

that.

1 Corinthians 7:1,8,28,35-38 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. . . .

Jeremiah 16:2-4 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons and daughters in this place. . . .

Matthew 24:19 And woe to them that are with child and that give suck in those days.

Luke 21:23 But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

Luke 23:28,29 But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves and for your children. . . .

1 Peter 4:17 For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God?

distress.

Context
The Unmarried and Widowed
25Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. 26I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be. 27Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.…
Cross References
Luke 21:23
But woe to them that are with child and give suck in those days: for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

1 Corinthians 7:1
Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 7:8
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.

1 Corinthians 7:27
Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

2 Thessalonians 2:2
That you be not easily moved from your sense nor be terrified, neither by spirit nor by word nor by epistle. as sent from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand.

1 Corinthians 7:25
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