1 Corinthians 7:35-37
1599 Geneva Bible
35 And this I speak for your own [a]commodity, not to tangle you in a snare, but that ye follow that which is honest, and that ye may cleave fast unto the Lord without separation.
36 [b]But if any man think that it is uncomely for his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he [c]sinneth not: let them be married.
37 Nevertheless, he that standeth firm in his [d]heart, that he hath no [e]need, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart, that he will keep his virgin, he doeth well.
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- 1 Corinthians 7:35 He meaneth that he will enforce no man either to marry or not to marry, but to show them barely what kind of life is most commodious.
- 1 Corinthians 7:36 Now he turneth himself to the Parents, in whose power and authority their children are, warning them that according to the former doctrine they consider what is meet and convenient for their children, that they neither deprive them of the necessary remedy against incontinency, nor constrain them to marriage, whereas neither their will doth lead them, nor any necessity urgeth them. And again he praiseth virginity, but of itself, and not in all.
- 1 Corinthians 7:36 He doeth well: for so he expoundeth it verse 38.
- 1 Corinthians 7:37 Resolved with himself.
- 1 Corinthians 7:37 That the weakness of his daughter enforceth him not, or any other matter, that that he may safely keep her a virgin still.
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