1 Corinthians 7:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain unmarried as I am.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But to the unmarried people and to the widows, I declare that it is well (good, advantageous, expedient, and wholesome) for them to remain [single] even as I do.

American Standard Version (1901)

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

Common English Bible

I’m telling those who are single and widows that it’s good for them to stay single like me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them, if they would remain as they are, just as I also am.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 Corinthians 7:8 Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”

1 Corinthians 7:32

I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord,

1 Corinthians 7:7

I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind.

1 Corinthians 9:5

Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?