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9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

1 Corinthians 7:9

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  • I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

  • Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

  • But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

  • The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

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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