1 Corinthians 7:28
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.
KJV
ἐὰν δὲ καὶ γαμήσῃς, οὐχ ἥμαρτες· καὶ ἐὰν γήμῃ ἡ παρθένος, οὐχ ἥμαρτεν. θλῖψιν δὲ τῇ σαρκὶ ἕξουσιν οἱ τοιοῦτοι, ἐγὼ δὲ ὑμῶν φείδομαι.
Greek NT
Si autem acceperis uxorem, non peccasti. Et si nupserit virgo, non peccavit : tribulationem tamen carnis habebunt hujusmodi. Ego autem vobis parco.
Vulgate
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.
ASV
But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- γαμήσῃς — SBLGNT
- γαμήσῃς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- γήμῃς — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:9 — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
- 1Cor 7:26 — I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
- 1Cor 7:26 — I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
- 1Cor 7:32 — But 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:
- 1Cor 7:35 — And 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.
- 1Tim 4:3 — Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
- 2Cor 1:23 — Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
- Heb 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.