Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
Parallel translations
- KJV Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
- BSB Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.
- NKJV Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
- NASB Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
- NLT If you have a wife, do not seek to end the marriage. If you do not have a wife, do not seek to get married.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 2
- 1 Cor 7:12–14But 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 7:20Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.
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