1 Corinthians 7:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    But{G1161} {G2532} shouldest{G1437} thou marry,{G1060} thou hast{G264} not{G3756} sinned;{G264} and{G2532} if{G1437} a virgin{G3933} marry,{G1060} she hath{G264} not{G3756} sinned.{G264} Yet{G1161} such{G5108} shall have{G2192} tribulation{G2347} in the flesh:{G4561} and{G1161} I{G1473} would spare{G5339} you.{G5216}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But{G1161} and{G2532} if{G1437} thou marry{G1060}{(G5661)}, thou hast{G264} not{G3756} sinned{G264}{(G5627)}; and{G2532} if{G1437} a virgin{G3933} marry{G1060}{(G5661)}, she hath{G264} not{G3756} sinned{G264}{(G5627)}. Nevertheless{G1161} such{G5108} shall have{G2192}{(G5692)} trouble{G2347} in the flesh{G4561}: but{G1161} I{G1473} spare{G5339}{(G5736)} you{G5216}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    But and yf thou take a wyfe thou synnest not. Lykwyse if a virgin mary she synneth not. Neverthelesse soche shall have trouble in their flesshe: but I faver you.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    But yf thou take a wife, thou synnest not. And yf a virgin mary, she synneth not Neuertheles soch shal haue trouble in the flesshe. But I fauoure you.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    But if thou takest a wife, thou sinnest not: and if a virgine marrie, shee sinneth not: neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But and if thou marrie a wyfe, thou sinnest not, and if a virgin marrie, she hath not sinned: Neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in their fleshe, but I beare with you.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:32-36 : 32 But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. 33 But he who is married cares about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 35 And this I say for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction. 36 But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he will. He does not sin; let them marry.
  • 2 Cor 1:23 : 23 Moreover, I call God as a witness upon my soul, that to spare you I did not come yet to Corinth.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
  • 1 Cor 7:26 : 26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Cor 7:24-27
    4 verses
    84%

    24 Brethren, let each one remain with God in the state in which he was called.

    25 Now concerning virgins: I have no command from the Lord, yet I give my judgment as one whom the Lord in his mercy has made trustworthy.

    26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

    27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:32-40
    9 verses
    81%

    32 But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

    33 But he who is married cares about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    34 There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

    35 And this I say for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.

    36 But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he will. He does not sin; let them marry.

    37 Nevertheless, he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.

    38 So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.

    39 A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

    40 But she is happier if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
    80%

    29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short; so that from now on, even those who have wives should be as though they had none,

  • 1 Cor 7:4-16
    13 verses
    79%

    4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

    5 Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

    6 But I speak this by permission, and not as a command.

    7 For I wish that all men were as I am. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

    8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

    9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

    10 And to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not leave her husband:

    11 But if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.

    12 But to the rest I speak, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.

    13 And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, and he is willing to live with her, let her not leave him.

    14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

    15 But if the unbeliever departs, let them depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace.

    16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 Now concerning the things you wrote to me about: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2 Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Rom 7:2-4
    3 verses
    74%

    2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is released from the law of her husband.

    3 So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she will be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she is married to another man.

    4 Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ; that you may be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.

  • Matt 19:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.

    10 His disciples said to him, If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
    70%

    18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

  • Deut 28:30
    70%

    30 You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Heb 13:4
    69%

    4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
    2 verses
    69%

    15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

  • Deut 20:7
    69%

    7 And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • Deut 22:28
    69%

    28 If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

  • Matt 22:25
    68%

    25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

  • Luke 20:34-35
    2 verses
    68%

    34 And Jesus answering said to them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

    35 But those who are counted worthy to attain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

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    67%

    28 And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.

  • Lev 21:13
    67%

    13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

  • 1 Tim 5:11
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    11 But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

  • Num 30:6
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    6 And if she had a husband when she vowed, or uttered anything out of her lips with which she bound her soul,

  • Luke 16:18
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    18 Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery.

  • Matt 22:28
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    28 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her.