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1 Corinthians 7:25

Weymouth NT

Concerning unmarried women I have no command to give you from the Lord; but I offer you my opinion, which is that of a man who, through the Lord's mercy, is deserving of your confidence.

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But what I am I am by the grace of God, and His grace bestowed upon me did not prove ineffectual. But I labored more strenuously than all the rest–yet it was not I, but God's grace working with me.

This being so, it follows that fidelity is what is required in stewards.

But to those already married my instructions are –yet not mine, but the Lord's– that a wife is not to leave her husband;

To the rest it is I who speak–not the Lord. If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, let him not send her away.

Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business –that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world– how she shall please her husband.

But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

Thus much in the way of concession, not of command.

What I am now saying, I do not say by the Lord's command, but as a fool in his folly might, in this reckless boasting.

We are; for, unlike most teachers, we are not fraudulent hucksters of God's Message; but with transparent motives, as commissioned by God, in God's presence and in communion with Christ, so we speak.




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