1 Corinthians 7:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁸ So then, he who marries his fiancée does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do better.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ So also then, he [the father] who gives his virgin (his daughter) in marriage does well, and he [the father] who does not give [her] in marriage does better.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

Common English Bible

³⁸ Therefore, the one who marries the unmarried woman does right, and the one who doesn’t get married will do even better.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ And so, he who joins with his virgin in matrimony does well, and he who does not join with her does better.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ Therefore, both he that giveth his virgin in marriage, doth well; and he that giveth her not, doth better.

1 Corinthians 7:38 Cross References

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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 7:37

But if someone stands firm in his resolve, being under no necessity but having his own desire under control, and has determined in his own mind to keep her as his fiancée, he will do well.

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 Corinthians 7:8

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

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.