1 Corinthians 7:28-30

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²⁸But if you men decide to go ahead anyway and get married now, it is all right; and if a girl gets married in times like these, it is no sin. However, marriage will bring extra problems that I wish you didn’t have to face right now.

²⁹The important thing to remember is that our remaining time is very short, and so are our opportunities for doing the Lord’s work.^[a] For that reason those who have wives should stay as free as possible for the Lord; ³⁰happiness or sadness or wealth should not keep anyone from doing God’s work.

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Footnotes

1 Corinthians 7:29 and so are our opportunities for doing the Lord’s work, implied. those who have wives should stay as free as possible for the Lord, literally, “those who have wives may be as though they didn’t.”