A moment in scripture
1 Corinthians 7:8
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I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Corinthians 7:6
But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
- 1 Corinthians 7:7
For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
- 1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
- 1 Corinthians 7:10
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.