Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. Common English Bible I’m telling those who are single and widows that it’s good for them to stay single like me. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I. |
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the emissaries, and the brothers of the Lord, and Kefa?