1 Corinthians 7:25

Turning to the unmarried, Paul says he has no direct command from the Lord on this matter but offers his trustworthy judgment as one shown mercy. He distinguishes apostolic counsel from explicit dominical command.

Cross-references · 15

• 1 Cor 7:6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
• 1 Cor 4:2Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.
• 1 Cor 7:40But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.
• 2 Cor 8:8–10I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• 1 Cor 7:12But to the rest I — not the Lord — say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.
• 1 Cor 7:10But to the married I command — not I, but the Lord — that the wife not leave her husband
• 2 Cor 2:17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
• 2 Cor 11:17That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
• 2 Cor 4:1–2Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
• 1 Cor 7:34There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world — how she may please her husband.
• Ps 78:63Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
• 1 Cor 7:28But 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.
• 1 Cor 15:10But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
• 1 Cor 7:36–38But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.
• 1 Tim 1:12–16And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

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