1 Corinthians 7:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ But if they have not self-control (restraint of their passions), they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame [with passion and tortured continually with ungratified desire].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Common English Bible

⁹ But if they can’t control themselves, they should get married, because it’s better to marry than to burn with passion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ But if they cannot restrain themselves, they should marry. For it is better to marry, than to be burned.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.

1 Corinthians 7:9 Krydshenvisninger

Acts 19:36

Since these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a virgin marries, she does not sin. Yet those who marry will experience distress in the flesh, and I would spare you that.

1 Corinthians 7:36

If anyone thinks that he is behaving indecently toward his fiancée, if his passions are strong and so it has to be, let him marry as he wishes; it is no sin. Let them marry.

1 Corinthians 7:39

A wife is bound as long as her husband lives. But if the husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,

1 Timothy 5:11

But refuse to put younger widows on the list, for when their sensual desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry,

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.