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 - 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. 更多版本King 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. 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. English Standard Version 2016 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. |
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
But I would prefer you to be without worry. Whoever is without a wife is worried about the things of the Lord, as to how he may please God.
For I would prefer it if you were all like myself. But each person has his proper gift from God: one in this way, yet another in that way.
Do we not have the authority to travel around with a woman who is a sister, just as do the other Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?