Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
1 Corinthians 7:1
Marriage
SUMMARY OF I CORINTHIANS 7: Marriage the Resource Against Social Sins.
Not to Be Lightly Dissolved. The Mutual Obligations. The Unmarried
State Freest from Trouble in Times of Persecution. But Neither
Husband Nor Wife to Leave Each Other. If They Should, to Remain
Unmarried. Not to Abandon an Unbelieving Husband or Wife Because of
Their. Unbelief. To Rest Content with the Secular State in Which One
Is. Converted. The Treatment of Virgin Daughters. Let Them Marry
Under Certain Conditions. Under Others, Best Not to Marry in Those
Critical Times. The Remarriage of Widows.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me. In the preceding
chapters Paul has mainly treated of irregularities in the Corinthian
church, of which he had learned through the "household of Chloe"
(1 Corinthians 1:11) and other private sources. Now he begins to answer
various questions asked in a letter from the church. If we had that
letter, it would aid much in understanding what follows by revealing
more clearly the state of the church and the discussions going on
within.
[It is] good for a man not to touch a woman. An Old-Testament phrase
which means not to marry. He does not mean that marriage is wrong, but
that on account of "the present distress" it was a good think not to be
bound by family ties. See 1 Corinthians 7:26. "Forbidding to marry" is one
of the signs of apostasy (1 Timothy 4:3). See Hebrews 13:4.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Corinthians 7:1
1 Corinthians 8:1
1 Corinthians 15:1
1 Corinthians 16:17
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