But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife, and his interests are divided. — The married man's merimna (worry, divided attention) extends to worldly affairs (ta tou kosmou) insofar as he must provide for and attend to his wife. The division of interest is not sinful but natural—marriage requires genuine partnership and mutual obligation. Paul does not condemn this but identifies the existential cost: the wife becomes co-concern with the Lord.

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