8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.


In Context

5 Defraud you not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

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

9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

10 And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

1 Corinthians 7:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:8Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:8But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:8And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am;