Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Corinthians 7:7

"Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that." — 1 Corinthians 7:7 (ASV)

For I would that all men were even as I myself.—Better, I wish rather that all men were as I myself. These words do not mean that the Apostle wished that everyone was unmarried, but that everyone had the same grace of continence with which he himself was endowed, so that they might without risk of sin remain unmarried (see 1 Corinthians 7:26). Yet, he adds, there are many gifts, and God has given to each man his own gift, so that, though you may not have the particular gift of continence which I have, you have some other. One has one kind of gift; another has another kind.