1 Corinthians 7:17-33 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:17-24

Here the apostle takes occasion to advise them to continue in the state and condition in which Christianity found them, and in which they became converts to it. And here, I. He lays down this rule in general?as God hath distributed to every one. Note, Our states and circumstances in this world are distributions of divine Providence. This fixes the bounds of men's habitations, and orders their steps. God setteth up and pulleth down. And again, As the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk.... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 7:17-24

7:17-24 The one thing that is necessary is that each man should walk as God has allotted to him and as God has called him. It is thus that I order things in all the Churches. Was any man called after he had been circumcised? Let him not try to efface it. Was any man called when he was not circumcised? Let him not get himself circumcised. Circumcision is of no importance and uncircumcision is of no importance, but keeping God's commandments is everything. Let each man remain in the condition... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 7:25

7:25,36-38 I have no command of the Lord with regard to virgins, but I give you my opinion, as one who has found the mercy of God and who can be trusted.... If anyone thinks that his conduct to his virgin is unseemly, if he finds that his passions are too strong, and if he thinks that they ought to marry, let him do what he wishes. He does no wrong; let them marry. But if any man is fixed and settled in his mind, and if there is no compulsion on him, but if he has complete power to abide by... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 7:26-35

7:26-35 I think that this is the right thing because of the present crisis-- that it is the right thing for a man to remain as he is. Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released from that bond. Are you free from marriage ties? Do not seek a wife. But, if you do marry, you have committed no sin. Those who do marry will have trouble about bodily things, and I would wish to spare you this. This I do say, brothers, the time is short, so short that, for the future those who have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:17

But as God hath distributed to every man ,.... This text is so placed, and the words of it so expressed, as that it may have regard both to what goes before, and follows after; it may have respect to every man's proper gift, whether of continence, or of disposition to marriage, which every man has of God, 1 Corinthians 7:7 , and accordingly ought to live in a single, or in a married state; or it may refer to the last verse, what knowest thou , &c.; and ει μη , which we render... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:18

Is any man called being circumcised ?.... That is, if any man that is a Jew, who has been circumcised in his infancy, is called by the grace of God, as there were many in those days, and many of them in the church at Corinth: let him not become uncircumcised ; or "draw on" the foreskin; as some did in the times of Antiochus, for fear of him, and to curry favour with him, who, it is said, 1Maccab. 1:15, "made themselves uncircumcised", and forsook the holy covenant; and so did Menelaus,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing ,.... In the affair of justification before God, and acceptance with him; it cannot make any man righteous in the sight of God, nor recommend him to the divine favour; it is no evidence of a man's calling, or of his having the truth or grace of God in him; nor is it of any avail in the business of salvation. It was something formerly; it was a command and an ordinance of God, to Abraham and his natural seed; it pointed at the corruption and pollution of nature; was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:20

Let every man abide in the same calling ,.... Civil calling, station, and business of life, wherein he was called ; that is, in which he was when he was called by the grace of God; and is to be understood of such a calling, station, and business of life, as is lawful, honest, and of good report; otherwise he ought not to abide in it, but betake himself to another, as Matthew and Zacchaeus, when called by grace, left the scandalous employment of a publican: nor is it the apostle's sense,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:21

Art thou called being a servant ?.... That is, called by grace whilst in the condition of a servant, care not for it ; do not be troubled at it, and uneasy with it; be not anxiously solicitous to be otherwise; bear the yoke patiently, go through thy servitude cheerfully, and serve thy master faithfully; do not look upon it as any objection to thy calling, any contradiction to thy Christian liberty, or as unworthy of, and a reproach upon thy profession of Christ: but if thou mayest be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:22

For he that is called in the Lord ,.... Which is to be understood, not of any civil calling, or of calling to an office; or of the outward call by the ministry of the word only; but of an internal, special, powerful, evangelical, and saving call by the grace of God; which is of persons out of darkness into light, out of bondage into liberty, from their sinful companions to the company and society of Christ and his people, from off themselves and their own righteousness, to the grace and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:17-24

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 7:17-24

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 7:25

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 7:26-35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 7:22

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