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But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
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Marriage Is Not a Sin
All commentators agree that Paul's primary point here is to remove any guilt associated with marriage. He explicitly states that for a man or a virgin to marry is not a sin. This clarifies that his earlier advice toward celibacy was practical counsel for a specific time of 'distress,' not a universal moral command.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Thou hast not sinned. There is no express command of God on this subject. The counsel which I give is mere advice, and it may be observed …
But and if thou marry (εαν δε κα γαμησηις). Condition of the third class, undetermined with prospect of being determined, with the…
19th Century
Anglican
But and if thou marry.—Better, If, however, you have married. The teaching here is not for some who will, after …
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Paul hastens to make it plain that there is nothing sinful in marriage, whether entered into by a widow, a widower, or a virgin. His main motive in…
16th Century
Protestant
But if you should even marry. As there was a danger of one’s thinking from the preceding statement that he tempted God if he knowingly and…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But and if you marry, you do not sin If a man that has never been married, or one that has, if legally loosed from h…
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Considering the distress of those times, the unmarried state was best. Nevertheless, the apostle does not condemn marriage. How contrary to the apo…
