But if you cannot restrain. Celibacy is not an option for everyone. Compare Matthew 19:11-12 and notes. It is better to marry. The unsatisfied desire is a constant source of temptation, and by the rule of 1 Corinthians 7:35, it is better to marry than to burn with passion; however, when marriage is impossible, it is infinitely better to burn, than to sin!
Verse 1 Corinthians 7:9. _BUT IF THEY CANNOT CONTAIN_] If they find it inconvenient and uncomfortable to continue as widowers and widows, let them remarry. _IT IS BETTER TO MARRY THAN TO BURN._] Bis...
BUT IF THEY CANNOT CONTAIN - If they have not the gift of continence; if they cannot be secure against temptation; if they have not strength of virtue enough to preserve them from the danger of sin, a...
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 Ca...
He now passes on to special classes. First, those who are unmarried or have lost their partners. It would be best for them to follow Paul's example and remain as they are. But if they have not the gif...
COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
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 b...
IF. App-118. CANNOT CONTAIN. have not (Greek. _ou)_ self-control. Greek. _engkrateuomai._ Only here and 1 Corinthians 9:25. Compare Acts 24:25.Titus 1:8. Occurs in Septuagint...
ADVICE CONCERNING MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY The newly-converted Corinthians had evidently found themselves in a difficulty concerning marriage. The Jews in general, whatever ascetics like the Essenes and...
_CONCERNING THE MARRIED LIFE 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1-9:_ Paul was questioned as to whether people should even marry at all. He begins, "Now I will answer the questions that you asked in your letter. You ask...
ΕΊ (G1487) если, с _ind._ вводит _conj._ 1 типа, в котором условие считается истинным. ΈΓΚΡΑΤΕΎΟΝΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΓΚΡΑΤΕΎΩ (G1467) контролировать себя, владеть собой (TLNT, 1:60-62)....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 The Purity of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:1-9) 7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman. 2But because of the temptation...
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. IF THEY CANNOT CONTAIN (). BURN - with the flame of lust, which consumes the whole inner man. The dew of God's...
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...
IT IS BETTER... — Because to be influenced with unlawful desire is a sin, and to marry is no sin....
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 t...
§ 20. MARRIAGE OR CELIBACY? At this point the Ap. takes up the questions addressed to him by the Cor [993] Church (see _Introd_., chap. 2). In replying to Paul's previous letter, they had asked for cl...
1 Corinthians 7:8-9 re-state the answer given in 1 Corinthians 7:1-2 to the question concerning celibacy _v_. marriage. “But I say to the unmarried and the widows, it is right (καλόν; _cf._ 1 Corin
MARRIAGE BONDS 1 Corinthians 7:1 The Apostle first addresses the unmarried, 1 Corinthians 7:1, _etc_. He speaks elsewhere reverently of marriage, Ephesians 5:23. Forbidding to marry is in his j
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...
Should A Single Christian Marry? Paul turned from dealing with problems of which he had heard to questions the Corinthians had asked. The first question, as seen by McGarvey, was, "Is marriage to be d...
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to (g) burn. (g) So to burn with lust, that either the will yields to the temptation, or else we cannot call upon God with a...
_If they do not contain. This is spoken of such as are free; and not of such as by vow have given their first faith to God; to whom, if they will use proper means to obtain it, God will never refuse t...
“I say then to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as 1 Corinthians 1:9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.” The δέ, _the...
Notwithstanding the intrinsic excellence of celibacy, marriage should be the rule in practice. Such is the general meaning of this first passage....
It is a good thing (καλόν) to remain free from every bond, if one can do so without sinning; but if sin is to be the result, it is better to marry; for sin is an evil, while marriage is not. The compo...
(4) The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. (5) Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent fo...
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...
9._But if they cannot contain _While he advises to abstain from marriage, he always speaks conditionally — _if it can be done, if there is ability_; but where the infirmity of the flesh does not allow...
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...
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, an...
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. Ver. 9. _Let them marry_] There is no lust so hot and violent, but God's medicines rightly applied will cool and he...
_I say, therefore_ I give this advice; _to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them_ It is a condition of life which will tend to promote their eternal welfare, that, _if_ they conveniently can,...
TO BURN; be disturbed with ungratified passion, or tempted by it to the commission of sin. God bestows on different persons different gifts, and places them in different conditions. That course which...
Marriage an obligation under circumstances:...
BUT IF THEY CANNOT CONTAIN, LET THEM MARRY; FOR IT IS BETTER TO MARRY THAN TO BURN....
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...
BUT IF THEY HAVE NOT CONTINENCY, LET THEM MARRY: FOR IT IS BETTER TO MARRY THAN TO BURN. 'But' -'But he insists again on people being sensible about their personal limitations.' (McGuiggan p. 96) 'T...
1-9 The apostle tells the Corinthians that it was good, in that juncture of time, for Christians to keep themselves single. Yet he says that marriage, and the comforts of that state, are settled by D...
That St. Paul's saying: _It is good, _ & c. did not signify, it is the will of God, or, (as the papists would have it), it is my counsel in order to your further perfection, is plain by his precept fo...
But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. [In contrast with the enforced indulgence of matrimony, Paul sets up his own life of abstinence as preferable,...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III ipse quoque "cadat." De secundis autum nuptiis: "Si uraris," inquit Apostolus, "jungere matrimonio."[7] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Fortasse aute...
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‘But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I. But if they do not have the ability to control their desires, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to...
BUT IF THEY HAVE NOT CONTINENCY (ε δε ουκ εγκρατευοντα). Condition of the first class, assumed as true. Direct middle voice εγκρατευοντα, hold themselves in, control themselves.LET THEM MARRY (γα...
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...
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...
_Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman._ MARRIAGE I. Is not necessary for all (1 Corinthians 7:1). 1. Instituted by God, sanctified by Christ,...
_I speak this by permission, and not of commandment._ REVELATION I. By permission. 1. Is still Divine and therefore authoritative. 2. Respects matters of expediency and private application. II. 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...
_But if they cannot contain, let then marry, for it is better to marry than to burn._ This may be a reference to Ruth 1:13. It is better to marry than to burn, unless, that is, you are already wedded...
_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...
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._...
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 7:2; 1 Corinthians 7:28; 1 Corinthians 7:36; 1 Corinthians 7:39;...
Cannot contain [ο υ κ ε γ κ ρ α τ ε υ ο ν τ α ι]. Rev., have not continence. Only here, and ch. 9 25, of athletes abstaining from sensual indulgences when preparing for the games. To burn. Continuous...