1 Corinthians 7:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ I think that, in view of the impending crisis, it is good for you to remain as you are.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ 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

²⁶ 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)

²⁶ 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

²⁶ So I think this advice is good because of the present crisis: Stay as you are.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ 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

²⁶ 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

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days!

Luke 21:23

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people;

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 7:27

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

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 7:8

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

2 Thessalonians 2:2

not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as though from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here.

1 Peter 4:17

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