1 CORINTHIANS 7:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.”
Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for a person to remain as they are. — The anankē (crisis, necessity, constraint) is likely eschatological: believers live in the final era before Christ's return, when ordinary pursuits become less urgent. Paul's counsel that virgins remain unmarried gains credibility from this perceived imminence. The 'good' (kalon) reflects Paul's own eschatological reasoning: why begin new family arrangements in the shadow of the end?
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