27Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.


In Context

24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

26 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

27 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

28 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.

29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

1 Corinthians 7:27 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Are you married? Do not seek a divorce. Are you unmarried? Do not look for a wife.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Art thou bound to a wife ? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife ? seek not a wife.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:27Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:27Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:27Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:27Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.