Verse 8

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

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 7:1 : 1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
• 1 Cor 7:7 : 7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
• 1 Cor 7:26-27 : 26 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.
• 1 Cor 7:32 : 32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
• 1 Cor 7:34-35 : 34 There is also 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 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.