1 Corinthians 7:25

παρθένων. Unmarried women. St Paul now returns to the question of marriage. But before he enters upon the question of the marriage of virgins, he treats, according to his usual rule, of the general principle of which theirs is a particular case. The time is short, and he would have all as free from care as possible.

ἐπιταγὴν κυρίου οὐκ ἔχω. See 1 Corinthians 7:10, note.

γνώμην δὲ δίδωμι. But I give my opinion. See 2 Corinthians 8:10. The form of the expression is unusual in classical Greek. In later Greek, however, it occurs not unfrequently, as in Diod. Sic. Biblioth. Hist. XX. 16 τὴν ἐναντίαν δοὺς γνώμην.

πιστός. The word means in the N.T. (1) trustworthy, (2) believing. See ch. 1 Corinthians 4:2 for (1) and for (2) 2 Corinthians 6:15. Here (1) is preferable.