1 Corinthians 7:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

1 Corinthians 7:32

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

1 Corinthians 7:7

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

1 Corinthians 9:5

Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?