Bible verse
Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.
1 Corinthians 7:27 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Corinthians 7.
23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.
24 Brothers, each one should remain in the situation he was in when God called him.
25 Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
26 Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.
27 Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.
28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.
29 What I am saying, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
30 those who weep, as if they did not; those who are joyful, as if they were not; those who make a purchase, as if they had nothing;
31 and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.
KJV
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
ASV
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
ERV
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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