1 Corinthians 7:27 BSB

1 Corinthians 7:27

Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Tertullian

Against Marcion Book V (220)

For the apostle, although preferring the grace of continence, yet permits the contraction of marriage and the enjoyment of it, and advises the continuance therein rather than the dissolution there of. Christ plainly forbids divorce, Moses unquestionably permits it.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Art thou bound unto a wife? - Art thou already married? Marriage is often thus represented as a “tie,” a “bond,” etc.; see the note at Rom 7:2. Seek not to be loosed - Seek not a “dissolution” (λύσιν lusin) of the connection, either by divorce or by a separation from each other; see the notes on 1Co 7:10-17. Art thou loosed from a wife? - Art thou unmarried? It should have been rendered “free from” a wife; or art thou single?

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Illustrating the meaning of "so to be," 1Co 7:26. Neither the married (those "bound to a wife") nor the unmarried (those "loosed from a wife") are to "seek" a change of state (compare 1Co 7:20, 24).

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
δέδεσαι	dedesai	Have you been bound	G1210 →
γυναικί;	gunaiki	to a wife?	G1135 →
μὴ	mē	Not	G3361 →
ζήτει	zētei	do seek	G2212 →
λύσιν·	lusin	to be loosed;	G3080 →
λέλυσαι	lelusai	Have you been loosed	G3089 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
γυναικός;	gunaikos	a wife?	G1135 →
μὴ	mē	Not	G3361 →
ζήτει	zētei	do seek	G2212 →
γυναῖκα.	gunaika	a wife.	G1135 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk5

Where the connections lead

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Through
1 Corinthians 7:20
Each one should remain in the situation he was in when he was called.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 7:17
  Regardless, each one should lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is what I prescribe in all the churches.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:11
  and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:12
  We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.
- Proverbs 27:8
  Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.
- 1 Corinthians 7:21–24
  Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About 1 Corinthians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 Corinthians