6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
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I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
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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