1 Corinthians 7:33
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
KJV
ὁ δὲ γαμήσας μεριμνᾷ τὰ τοῦ κόσμου, πῶς ἀρέσῃ τῇ γυναικί,
Greek NT
Qui autem cum uxore est, sollicitus est quæ sunt mundi, quomodo placeat uxori, et divisus est.
Vulgate
but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
ASV
But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γαμέω
gameo
verb · 28×
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
κόσμος
kosmos
noun · 184×
μεριμνάω
merimnao
verb · 19×
πῶς
pos
adverb · 104×
ἀρέσκω
aresko
verb · 17×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἀρέσῃ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀρέσῃ | RP: ἀρέσει
- ἀρέσῃ — SBLGNT
- ἀρέσῃ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀρέσει — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 26.—What It is to Have Christ for a Foundation, and Who They are to Whom Salvation as by Fire is Promised. But, say they, the catholic Christians have Christ for a foundation, and they have not fallen away from union with Him, no matter how depraved a life they have built on this foundation, as wood, hay, stubble; and accordingly the well-directed faith by which Christ …
Cross-references
- 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.
- 1Pet 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder
- 1Tim 5:8 — But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
- Col 3:19 — Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
- Luke 14:20 — And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.