1 Corinthians 7:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

1 Corinthians 7:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 7:8
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Peter 4:17
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Luke 23:28-29
But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. …
1 Corinthians 7:35-38
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction. …

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Commentary

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. I suppose--“I consider.” this--namely, “for a man so to be,” that is, in the same state in which he is (1Co 7:27). for--by reason of. the present distress--the distresses to which believers were then beginning to be subjected, making the married state less desirable than the single; and which would prevail throughout the world before the destruction of Jerusalem, according to Christ’s prophecy…