Verse 26

I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that `it is' good for a man that the matter be thus: --

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:1 : 1 And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,
  • 1 Cor 7:8 : 8 And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';
  • Luke 21:23 : 23 `And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;
  • Luke 23:28-29 : 28 and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children; 29 for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;
  • Jer 16:2-4 : 2 Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place. 3 For thus said Jehovah, Of the sons and of the daughters who are born in this place, And of their mothers -- those bearing them, And of their fathers -- those begetting them in this land: 4 Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.
  • Matt 24:19 : 19 `And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;
  • 1 Cor 7:28 : 28 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.
  • 1 Cor 7:35-38 : 35 And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly, 36 and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry. 37 And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well; 38 so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.
  • 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?