Except it be by consent for a season (ε μητ [αν] εκ συμφωνου προς καιρον). If αν is genuine, it can either be regarded as like εαν…

Defraud ye not, etc. Meaning, the right mentioned above. Do not withdraw from the companionship of each other.

Except it be wit…

Except it be . . . that you may give yourselves—i.e., that you may have leisure. Any such separation should be t…

The present tense of the verb “deprive” (GK 691) in the prohibition in v.5 indicates that some at Corinth were practicing a kind of celibacy within…

Defraud ye not one the other Profane persons might think that Paul does not act with sufficient modesty in speaking in this way about the …

Defraud you not one another By withholding due benevolence, denying the use of the marriage bed, refusing to pay the conj…

The apostle tells the Corinthians that it was good, at that particular time, for Christians to keep themselves single. Yet he says that marriage, a…

After rebuking the fornicator and those who upheld him, the Apostle now begins to discuss marriage. In this regard, he does three things: