1 Corinthians 7:8
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
KJV
Λέγω δὲ τοῖς ἀγάμοις καὶ ταῖς χήραις, καλὸν αὐτοῖς ἐὰν μείνωσιν ὡς κἀγώ·
Greek NT
Dico autem non nuptis, et viduis : bonum est illis si sic permaneant, sicut et ego.
Vulgate
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
ASV
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καλός
kalos
adjective · 100×
κἀγώ
kago
pronoun · 85×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μένω
meno
verb · 117×
χήρα
chera
noun · 26×
ἄγαμος
agamos
noun · 4×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: αὐτοῖς | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτοῖς | RP: + ἐστιν
- αὐτοῖς — SBLGNT
- αὐτοῖς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἐστιν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Let the husband pay the wife the honor due to her: in like manner the wife the husband. Now what is the meaning of the due honor? The wife has not power over her own body; but is both the slave and the mistress of the husband. And if you decline the service which is due, you have offended God. But if you wish to withdraw yourself, it must be with the husband's permission, th…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:1 — Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
- 1Cor 7:7 — For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
- 1Cor 7:7 — For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
- 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 7:34 — There 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 thi
- 1Cor 7:38 — So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
- 1Cor 7:40 — But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
- 1Tim 5:14 — I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.