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

⁸ 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

⁸ I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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)

⁸ But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

Common English Bible

⁸ I’m telling those who are single and widows that it’s good for them to stay single like me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ 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

⁸ 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?