What does 1 Corinthians 7:27 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife."
Verse 27. _ART THOU BOUND UNTO A WIFE?_] i e. _Married_; for the marriage contract was considered in the light of a _bond_. _SEEK NOT TO BE LOOSED._] Neither regret your circumstances, notwithstandin...
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 Romans 7:2. SEEK NOT TO BE LOOSED - Seek not a “dissolution” (λυ...
4. CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND WOMAN CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Single and the Married Life. (1 Corinthians 7:1)._ 2. Separation and Divorce. (1 Corinthians 7:10). 3. Abiding in the Different C...
Paul now passes to the case of virgins, on which the church had invited his judgment. The section is one of peculiar difficulty. It is generally thought that Paul is dealing with the relations of a fa...
COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
BOUND. Greek. _deo,_ not _doudoe,_ as in 1 Corinthians 7:15 TO BE LOOSED. release. Greek. _lusis_. Only here. LOOSED. Greek. pass, of _luo._...
General Instructions Concerning the Marriage of Virgins 25. _virgins_ i.e. unmarried women. St Paul now returns to the question of marriage. But before he enters upon the question of the marriage of...
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE MARRIAGE OF VIRGINS....
_CONCERNING BEING SINGLE OR REMARRIED 1 CORINTHIANS 7:25-40:_ The present distress lead Paul to believe that being single was preferred to marriage at that time. There was severe persecution and being...
ΔΈΔΕΣΑΙ _perf. ind. pass._ 2 _pers. sing. от_ ΔΈΩ (G1210) связывать, с _dat._ указывает на человека, с которым кто-л. связан. _Perf._ указывает на длительное состояние, являющееся результатом предыдущ...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 The Pressures of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:17-40) 17 Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, and in which God has called him. This is my rul...
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. Illustrating . Neither the married (those "bound to a wife") nor the unmarried (those "loosed from a...
8 It is evident that the preceding concession is only a general rule, not applicable to those not then married. Their relations are to be regulated by mutual consideration, but the unmarried need to c...
_(A) ANSWER TO QUESTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE_ The Corinthians had in their letter (1 Corinthians 7:1) asked St. Paul's opinion on several points connectedwithmarriage. His language in reply is guarded; he...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO MARRY 7:1-2 V1 But now I will deal with the matters that you wrote about. It is good for a man not to marry. V2 B...
ART THOU BOUND UNTO A WIFE? — This is an explanation and re-assertion of the previous words “so to be.” Being “loosed from a wife” does not mean a separation after marriage, but simply “unmarried.”...
CHAPTER 11 MARRIAGE THERE are two preliminary considerations which throw some light on this much-contested passage. First, Paul had to speak about marriage as he found it, as it existed among those...
§ 23. ADVANTAGES OF THE SINGLE STATE. Paul's opinion had been asked particularly, in this connexion, about the case of _marriageable daughters_ (1 Corinthians 7:25): was it wise for fathers, as things...
COUNSEL FOR TIMES OF EMERGENCY 1 Corinthians 7:25 The _virgin_ here referred to is probably the young woman who was engaged to be married, and the counsel is expressly defined to be advice, and give...
Certain difficulties had arisen in the Corinthian Church concerning which they had sent inquiries to Paul. He now answers their questions. These answers contain principles of permanent application. T...
Is Celibacy Preferable To Marriage? McGarvey thinks the third question must have been, "Is celibacy or virginity perferable to marriage?" Paul was inspired in his judgment (7:40; 14:37), so we can re...
_Now concerning virgins, &c. He turns his discourse again to the unmarried, who (if they have made no vow) may lawfully marry, though he is far from commanding every one to marry, as when he says, see...
Notwithstanding the intrinsic excellence of celibacy, marriage should be the rule in practice. Such is the general meaning of this first passage....
(18) Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. (19) Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, bu...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
27._Art thou bound to a wife? _Having stated what would be most advantageous, he adds at the same time, that we ought not to be so much influenced by the advantages of celibacy, that one that is bound...
The apostle proceeds by answering a question in connection with the subject he had been treating the will of God with regard to the relationship between man and woman. They do well who remain outside...
ART THOU BOUND UNTO A WIFE?.... Or to a woman; either by promise, or by espousal, or by consummate marriage; either of which is a tic, or obligation, a bond, and especially the latter; marriage is suc...
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. Ver. 27. _Art thou bound to a wife?_] A manifest metaphor from oxen. Hence we call them yoke fellows:...
_Art thou bound to a wife?_ “Because the directions which the apostle was about to give (1Co 7:36) to fathers, concerning the disposal of their children in marriage, were partly to be founded on the i...
The question of celibacy in general:...
Those things in Chapter s 5 and 6, which were of such serious importance as demanding correction, had evidently not even been questions in the minds of the Corinthians. But Paul was required to raise...
ART THOU BOUND UNTO. WIFE? SEEK NOT TO BE LOOSED. ART THOU LOOSED FROM. WIFE? SEEK NOT. WIFE. 'bound unto. wife?' -'didst thou marry at one time, and art thou thus married now?' (Lenski p. 313) 'Are...
25-35 Considering the distress of those times, the unmarried state was best. Notwithstanding, the apostle does not condemn marriage. How opposite are those to the apostle Paul who forbid many to marr...
Art thou bound by marriage, or bound by contract, do not use any sinful ways to be loosed from that bond, either by divorce or by a voluntary departure: if the unbeliever will depart, he or she may, y...
Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Idem autem ilia quoque scribit: "Alligatus es uxori? ne quaeras solutionem. Solutus es ab uxore? ne quaeras uxorem."[69] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V an...
1 Corinthians 7:27 bound G1210 (G5769) wife G1135 not G3361 seek G2212 (G5720) loosed G3080 (G5769) loosed G3089 from G575 wife G1135 not G3361 seek G2212 (G5720) wife G1135 you bound - 1 Corinthians...
‘I think therefore that this is good by reason of the present (or ‘impending') necessity (distress, calamity, necessity, compulsion, means of compulsion) namely that it is good for a man to be as he i...
_Answers to Corinthian Questions regarding Marriage,_ 25-40. 1 Corinthians 7:25. NOW CONCERNING VIRGINS I HAVE NO COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD: BUT I GIVE MY JUDGMENT, AS ONE THAT HATH OBTAINED MERCY OF T...
ART THOU BOUND TO A WIFE? (δεδεσα γυναικι;). Perfect passive indicative of δεω, to bind, with dative case γυναικ. Marriage bond as in Romans 7:2.SEEK NOT TO BE LOOSED (μη ζητε λυσιν). Present act...
CONTENTS: Sanctity of marriage. Regulation of marriage among Gentile believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Marriage is by divine wisdom prescribed for the preventing of...
It is evident from the tenor of this chapter that the Corinthians had written to the apostle for advice on the subject of marriage and its obligations, and that he is here resolving their various diff...
DO YOU HAVE A WIFE? If you are married, the Lord decrees that you must not abandon her (see notes on 1 Corinthians 7:10-11). ARE YOU UNMARRIED? Either a bachelor or a widower. THEN DON'T LOOK FOR A WI...
_Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord._ CONCERNING VIRGINS AND WIDOWS The apostle advises-- I. The unmarried of both sexes. As he has argued against the disruption of the ties b...
CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this chapter he answers five questions of the Corinthians about the laws of matrimony, and about the counsel of virginity and celibacy i. The first question is...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ A. 1. Observe: With this chapter commences a NEW SECTION of the Epistle; the topics, and perhaps their order, suggested by a letter of formal inquiry brought from Corinth: vii. Marr...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _Answers to the inquiries of the Corinthians respecting marriage._ 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _The_ _lawfulness of marriage, and its duties._ 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 NOW CONCERNING...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of I Corinthians. The Corinthian church was a mess. There were just a lot of problems, a problem with carnality. There were divisions in the chur...
1 Corinthians 7:12; 1 Corinthians 7:20...