Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
1 Corinthians 7:8 - English Standard Version 2016 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I 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. 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 matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?