1 Corinthians 7:38 Cross References - Etheridge

³⁸ And he then who giveth his virgin doeth well, and he who giveth not his virgin doeth better.

¹ BUT concerning those (questions) of which you wrote to me, It is well for a man unto a woman not to come nigh; ² but, because of fornication, let a man take his wife, and let a woman take her husband

⁸ But I say to those who have no wives, and to the widows, that it is expedient for them to remain as I do.

²⁶ And I consider that this is good [counsel], on account of the necessity of the time, that it is expedient for a man so to be.

³² Wherefore I would that you be without anxiety; for he who hath not a wife thinketh of the things of his Lord, that so he may please his Lord; ³³ and he who hath a wife is anxious for the world, that so he may please his wife. ³⁴ But there is a distinction between the wife and the virgin. She who hath no man is thoughtful of the things of her Lord, that she may be holy in her body and in her spirit; and she who hath a husband is thoughtful of the world, that so she may please her husband.

³⁷ But he who hath firmly decided in his own mind, and nothing constraineth him, and (who hath) power in his will, and thus judgeth in his heart, that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

⁴ Honourable is marriage among all, and their bed is undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers Aloha judgeth.