6But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.


In Context

3 Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

4 The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

5 Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

6 But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.

7 Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

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

1 Corinthians 7:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:6But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:6I say this as a concession, not as a command.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:6But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:6But this I say by way of permission, not of commandment.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6But I speak this by permission, and not as a commandment.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6and this I say by way of concurrence — not of command,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.