1 Corinthians 7:9 — King James Version← Study notes
“But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.”
1 Corinthians 7:9 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · 1 Corinthians 7:911 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 7:9
“Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent.” What then can this mean? “Let not the wife,” says he, “exercise continence, if the husband be unwilling; nor yet the husband without the wife's consent.” Why so? Because great evils spring from this sort of continence. For adulteries and fornications and the ruin of families have often arisen from hence. For if when men have their own wives they commit fornication, much more if you defraud them of this consolation. And…
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