1 Corinthians 7:28

English Standard Version 2016

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

Cross References

Hebrews 13:4

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

1 Corinthians 7:26

I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is.

2 Corinthians 1:23

But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.

Matthew 5:32

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

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 7:29

This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,