◄ 1 Corinthians 7:27 ►
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Good News Translation
Do you have a wife? Then don't try to get rid of her. Are you unmarried? Then don't look for a wife.

New Revised Standard Version
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

Contemporary English Version
If you are married, stay married. If you are not married, don't try to get married.

New American Bible
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek a separation. Are you free of a wife? Then do not look for a wife.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

thou bound.

1 Corinthians 7:12-14,20 For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not and she consent to dwell with him: let him not put her away. . . .

Context
The Unmarried and Widowed
…26I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be. 27Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife. 28But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:26
I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity: that it is good for a man so to be.

1 Corinthians 7:28
But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.

1 Corinthians 7:26
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