1 Corinthians 7:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Common English Bible

²⁷ If you are married, don’t get a divorce. If you are divorced, don’t try to find a spouse.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free of a wife? Do not seek a wife.

1 Corinthians 7:27 Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:20

Let each of you remain in the condition in which you were called.

1 Corinthians 7:26

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

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.