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


In Context

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.

9 But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

10 But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave 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 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;

The American 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.