1 CORINTHIANS 7:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.”
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.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 7:33
“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…
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