1 Corinthians 7:26 - Revised Standard Version

I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to remain as he is.

Dugang nga mga bersyon

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I think then, because of the impending distress [that is even now setting in], it is well (expedient, profitable, and wholesome) for a person to remain as he or she is.

American Standard Version (1901)

I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

Common English Bible

So I think this advice is good because of the present crisis: Stay as you are.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, I consider this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be such as I am.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 Corinthians 7:26 Cross References

Matthew 24:19

And alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days!

Luke 21:23

Alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days! For great distress shall be upon the earth and wrath upon this people;

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 7:27

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a girl marries she does not sin. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

1 Corinthians 7:8

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do.

2 Thessalonians 2:2

not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

1 Peter 4:17

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?