1 Corinthians 7:26

New International Reader's Version

Times are hard for you right now. So I think it’s good for a man to stay as he is.

Cross References

Matthew 24:19

How awful it will be in those days for pregnant women! How awful for nursing mothers!

Luke 21:23

How awful it will be in those days for pregnant women! How awful for nursing mothers! There will be terrible suffering in the land. There will be great anger against those people.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now I want to deal with the things you wrote me about. Some of you say, “It is good for a man not to sleep with a woman.”

1 Corinthians 7:27

Are you engaged to a woman? Then don’t try to get out of it. Are you free from such a promise? Then don’t look for a wife.

1 Corinthians 7:28

But if you do marry someone, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries someone, she has not sinned. But those who marry someone will have many troubles in this life. I want to save you from this.

1 Corinthians 7:8

I speak now to those who are not married. I also speak to widows. It is good for you to stay single like me.

2 Thessalonians 2:2

What if you receive a message that is supposed to have come from us? What if it says that the day of the Lord has already come? If it does, we ask you not to become easily upset or alarmed. Don’t be upset whether that message is spoken or written or prophesied.

1 Peter 4:17

It is time for judgment to begin with the household of God. And since it begins with us, what will happen to people who don’t obey God’s good news?