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


In Context

3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

5 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

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

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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.

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 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.