1 CORINTHIANS 7:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.”
Are you pledged to a woman? Do not seek to be released. Are you free from such a commitment? Do not look for a wife. — The paired conditions address those betrothed and those free. No one should initiate marriage; existing betrothals should not be dissolved. The counsel presumes that maintaining the status quo preserves focus on the Lord during the eschatological interval.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 7:27
“Are you bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.” These words carry no contradiction to what had been said before but rather the most entire agreement with them. For he says in that place also, “Except it be by consent:” as here he says, “Are you bound unto a wife? Seek not separation.” This is no contradiction. For its being against consent makes a dissolution: but if with consent both live continently, it is no…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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