1 Coríntios 7:4-16 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:1-9

The apostle comes now, as a faithful and skilful casuist, to answer some cases of conscience which the Corinthians had proposed to him. Those were things whereof they wrote to him, 1 Cor. 7:1. As the lips of ministers should keep knowledge, so the people should ask the law at their mouths. The apostle was as ready to resolve as they were to propose their doubts. In the former chapter, he warns them to avoid fornication; here he gives some directions about marriage, the remedy God had appointed... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:10-16

In this paragraph the apostle gives them direction in a case which must be very frequent in that age of the world, especially among the Jewish converts; I mean whether they were to live with heathen relatives in a married state. Moses's law permitted divorce; and there was a famous instance in the Jewish state, when the people were obliged to put away their idolatrous wives, Ezra 10:3. This might move a scruple in many minds, whether converts to Christianity were not bound to put away or... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 7:3-7

7:3-7 Let the husband give to the wife all that is due to her; and in the same way let the wife give to the husband all that is due to him. A wife is not in absolute control of her own body, but her husband is. In the same way a husband is not in absolute control of his own body, but his wife is. Do not deprive each other of each other's legitimate rights, unless it be by common agreement, and for a limited time. You could do so in order to have time for prayer and afterwards come together... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 7:8-16

7:8-16 To the unmarried and to the widows I say, it would be a fine thing if they were to remain like myself, but if they find continence impossible, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to go on being inflamed with passion. To those who are married I give this order--and the order is not mine but the Lord's--that a wife should not separate herself from her husband; but if she does separate, let her either remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband; and that a husband should... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife hath not power of her own body ,.... To refrain the use of it from her husband; or to prostitute it to another man: but the husband ; he has the sole power over it, and may require when he pleases the use of it: and likewise also the husband has not power over his own body : to withhold due benevolence, or the conjugal debt from his wife; or abuse it by self-pollution, fornication, adultery, sodomy, or any acts of uncleanness: but the wife; she only has a power over it, a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:5

Defraud ye not one the other ,.... By withholding due benevolence, denying the use of the marriage bed, refusing to pay the conjugal debt, and which is called a "diminishing of her marriage duty", Exodus 21:10 where the Septuagint use the same word "defraud", as the apostle does here; it is what both have a right to, and therefore, if either party is denied, it is a piece of injustice, it is properly a defrauding; though with proper conditions, such as follow, it may be lawful for married... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:6

But I speak this by permission ,.... Referring either to what he had said before, though not to all; not to 1 Corinthians 7:2 that for the avoiding of fornication, every man should make use of his own wife, and every woman of her own husband; since this is not by permission, but by command, Genesis 2:24 that carnal copulation should be between one man and one woman in a married state; nor to 1 Corinthians 7:3 for that married persons ought to render due benevolence to, and not defraud... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:7

For I would that all men were even as I myself ,.... The apostle speaks not of his state and condition, as married or unmarried, for it is not certain which he was; some think he had a wife, others not: it looks, however, as if he had not at this time, as appears from 1 Corinthians 7:8 but be it which it will, it can hardly be thought he should wish all men to be in either state, either all married, or all unmarried; but he speaks of the gift of continency, which he had, as the following... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:8

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows ,.... Not by way of command, but advice: by the "unmarried" he means, either such men who never were in a married state, or else such who had been married, but their wives were dead; which latter sense seems more agreeable, since they are joined with "widows", who had lost their husbands: it is good for them if they abide ; unmarried, and do not change their condition any more; not that it was sinful to marry again, for he allows of it in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they cannot contain , &c.; Or "if they do not contain", as the words may be rendered, and as almost all versions do render them; if they have not the gift of continency; if they are not willing, and do not think fit to contain, for none are to be compelled; if either therefore they want a will or power to contain, let them marry; it is not only lawful for them to marry, but it is right and best for them; hence it appears that second marriages are lawful, which were condemned by... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:1-9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:10-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 7:3-7

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 7:8-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:9

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