KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Corinthians 7:26–28
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1 Corinthians 7:26
26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present ‖distresse, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
- Or, necessitie.
1 Corinthians 7:27
27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
27Art thou bound vnto a wife? seeke not to bee loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seeke not a wife.
1 Corinthians 7:28
28But 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.
28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned, and if a virgin marry, shee hath not sinned: neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 7:26
To lay down or state as a proposition or fact that may exist or be true, though not known or believed to be true or to exist; or to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
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Being at hand or in a place; also a gift, or to bring, offer, show, or give.
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Severe trouble, anguish, or affliction; as a verb, to afflict, oppress, or make miserable.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
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A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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1 Corinthians 7:27
Made fast, tied, confined, or obligated; destined or going toward; as a verb, to set a limit.
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Untied; unbound; freed from restraint.
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1 Corinthians 7:28
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To take or join in marriage; to enter the marriage relation.
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Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
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To sin: to transgress against God or violate his law.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A person who has not had sexual relations; especially an unmarried maiden.
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MEANING IN THIS VERSE
Nevertheless
Not the less; even so; despite the preceding circumstance or objection.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Of the kind, degree, or character already named or indicated.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Disturbance, affliction, distress, vexation, or difficulty; also, to disturb, distress, afflict, or inconvenience.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The soft substance of the body; also the body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.
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To refrain from harming, punishing, using, or destroying; to save, preserve, allow, or use frugally.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 26
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Open the full verse study1NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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Open the full verse study8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
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Open the full verse study17For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
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Open the full verse study28But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
29For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
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Open the full verse study28But 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.
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Open the full verse study35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
36But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
37Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
38So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
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Open the full verse study2Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.
3For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
4They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
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Open the full verse study23But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
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Open the full verse study19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
From verse 27
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Open the full verse study12But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
13And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
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Open the full verse study20Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
From verse 28
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Open the full verse study4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Open the full verse study26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
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Open the full verse study32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
36But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
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Open the full verse study23Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
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