1 Corinthians 7:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

Luke 21:23

Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath unto this people.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 7:27

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:8

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

2 Thessalonians 2:2

to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is now present;

1 Peter 4:17

For the time is come for judgement to begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?