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

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Now to the unmarried[a] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:8 Or widowers

26 I 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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26 Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is.(A)

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29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

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29 What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short.(A) From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not;

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19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

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19 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!(A)

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29 For, 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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29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’(A)

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