The King James Version Bible

1 Corinthians 7:8

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

Cross References

  1. Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
  2. 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.
  3. I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
  4. 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:
  5. 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 things of the world, how she may please her husband. 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.