Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
1 Corinthians 7:26 - Tree of Life Version I think then, because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I think then, because of the impending distress [that is even now setting in], it is well (expedient, profitable, and wholesome) for a person to remain as he or she is. American Standard Version (1901) I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is. Common English Bible So I think this advice is good because of the present crisis: Stay as you are. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, I consider this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be such as I am. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be. |
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
“Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! For there will be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek a divorce. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people will have trouble in this fleshly life, and I am trying to spare you.
But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them to remain as I am.
not to get shaken out of your mind or disturbed—either by a spirit or a word or a letter as if through us—as though the Day of the Lord has come.
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the house of God. If judgment begins with us first, what will be the end for those who disobey the Good News of God?