1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. …
His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry. …
Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. …
And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The apostle comes now, as a faithful and skilful casuist, to answer some cases of conscience which the Corinthians had proposed to him. Those were things whereof they wrote to him , 1 Cor. 7:1. As the lips of ministers should keep knowledge , so the people should ask the law at their mouths . The apostle was as ready to resolve as they were to propose their doubts. In the former chapter, he warns…
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