1st Corinthians Chapter 7 verse 33 Holy Bible
but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
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But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.
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but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.
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But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
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but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
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and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 33. - Careth for the things that are of the world. St. Paul's language must not be extravagantly pressed. It only applies absolutely to times in which the conditions are the same as they then were. The "anxious cares" which marriage involves may be more innocent and less distracting than those which attack the celibate condition; and when that is the case, marriage, on St. Paul's own principle, becomes a duty. Thus some of the best and greatest of our missionaries have found their usefulness as God's messengers vastly increased by marriage, in spite of the awful trials which marriage often involves. The apostles and brethren of the Lord felt the same. St. Paul's opinions here are, as he tells us, opinions only, and admit of many modifications. Advice given to men and women when Christians believed that the Lord was coming, perhaps in that very age, to judge the world, is not universally applicable to all ages. In St. Paul's later Epistles he does not revert to this advice, but assumes that marriage is the normal condition.
