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1 Corinthians 7:26

1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 Corinthians 7:26 present distress. This may refer to living in the last days (see note on vv. 29–31), or to some difficulty the Corinthians were experiencing, such as famine.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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. Th...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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 rel...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Now concerning virgins_ The word παρθενων, translated _virgins_, denotes persons of either sex, who never were married. For Elsner, after Suidas, tells us, that men were called παρθενοι, _virgins_, a...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I SUPPOSE, THEREFORE, THAT THIS IS GOOD FOR THE PRESENT DISTRESS; I SAY THAT IT IS GOOD FOR A MAN SO TO BE....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DISTRESS: Or, necessity...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    GOOD here signifieth convenient, (as before), if other circumstances of particular persons make it not sinful; or better with respect to THE PRESENT DISTRESS or necessity: by which, without doubt, the...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is....

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Tertullian On Modesty Now, if in all cases he says it is best for a man thus to be; "Thou art joined to a wife seek not loosing" (that you may give no occasion to adultery); "thou art loosed from a wi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    _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 TH...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    I THINK THEREFORE (νομιζω ουν). Paul proceeds to express therefore the previously mentioned judgment (γνωμην) and calls it his opinion, not because he is uncertain, but simply because it is not a c...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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 f...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    CONSIDERING THE PRESENT DISTRESS. "It will be much easier to meet the persecutions and miseries of the present distress if we have no wives and children to worry about....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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. Marri...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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._...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 7:1; 1 Corinthians 7:28; 1 Corinthians 7:35; 1 Corinthians 7:8;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    The present distress [τ η ν ε ν ε σ τ ω σ α ν α ν α γ κ η ν]. Enestwsan present may also express something which is not simply present, but the presence of which foreshadows and inaugurates something...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    This is good for the present distress — While any church is under persecution. For a man to continue as he is — Whether married or unmarried. St. Paul does not here urge the present distress as a reas...

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