1 Corinthians 7:36-38 New International Version 36 If anyone is…

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1. Yehoshua Marion says:

   May 16, 2020 at 6:42 am

   It is basically saying not to be inflamed with earthly passions. Both choices are there to control lust. In the same situation the first seems to burn with lust, so should marry so that there is no sin, in the second matter he seems not to be in that predicament and therefore has no need to marry the girl immediately.

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2. Joseph Cuevas says:

   May 16, 2020 at 6:48 am

   Paul is talking to about the bachelors/unmarried men as well as bachelorettes/ ladies that are not engaged to be married. Sister if you want to fully understand what the writer means about his topic, you should get a Bible written in your own language or dialect. There is no shame in that, then you can compare it with what you have. One of the promise written in the Bible for us is ” If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, Who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” (Jas.1:5) God bless you.

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3. Madison Willoughby says:

   May 16, 2020 at 8:23 am

   This is advice about marriage/not marriage in general. It is not directed to any one specific person or group of people.

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4. Sachin Beragi says:

   May 16, 2020 at 9:58 am

   For this there are tree views.
   1. Daughter of a father.
   2. Batroth
   3. Own virginity
   These are the tree intrepatations, about what the “virgin” refers or this “virginity” refers to whom.
   You can take anyone which is fit in the context of 1 Corinthians 7.

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5. Michael Schisler says:

   May 16, 2020 at 1:02 pm

   Paul is addressing Christians in this passage and the tone of these verses is getting everyone to heaven. What is significant is that historically, women have not had many rights. Christianity has done much to elevate the status of women, in that women hold the status of “equal heir” in the spiritual realm, and that men are given some very specific instructions in terms of laying their lives down for their wives as Christ lay down His life for the church. The picture, then, is that the Christian husband, and thus the Christian dad, is not a tyrant, but one who carefully and prayerfully puts the interests of his wife and family ahead of his own. The saintly elder or bishop is one who “manages” his own household; he is thus involved in the thoughtful development and spiritual growth of each of his children, helping them to be all they can be within the scope of the scriptures. Dad is going to consider thoughtfully the desires of his virgin daughter.

   Historically, women have had to be granted permission from their fathers or guardians to marry. While this could lead to bad situations in which daughters were used as bargaining tools as their fathers tried to accomplish certain objectives, it could have also been a means of protecting daughters against unwelcome suitors. A truly Christian father will have a good communication relationship with his daughter, and desire her happiness. That the virgin has a choice in these matters of the heart is implicit in one of the apostle’s statements in this section on marriage, where he comments that “if a virgin should marry, she has not sinned.” If it were not her choice, then it would not be a matter of her committing a sin. “But if any man thinks he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter,” Paul begins to answer another marriage question, “if she should be of full age, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin, let her marry” (I Corinthians 7:36). [There are some complexities in the thrust of this passage; the New American Standard version chooses to translate these verses in this way because of what is in verse 38.] If a man’s Christian daughter really wants to get married, the father does not sin if he lets them marry. “But he who stands firm in his heart, being under no constraint, but has authority over his own will and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, he will do well” (I Corinthians 7:37). If the father has a really good reason that he is firm on, then he will do well to keep his daughter under his care. “So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well,” Paul notes, and then in consideration of the points he has made earlier, he adds, “and he who does not give her in marriage will do better” (I Corinthians 7:38). Christian dads are not tyrants, and these decisions are carefully and prayerfully made.

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6. Philip K. Eyrich says:

   May 16, 2020 at 3:22 pm

   The NIV from 1984 apparently reads differently, saying, “If anyone thinks he is acting improperly toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if she is getting along in years and he feels he ought to marry, he should do as he wants. He is not sinning. They should get married. But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin–this man also does the right thing. So then, he who marries the virgin does right, but he who does not marry her does even better.”

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7. Philip K. Eyrich says:

   May 16, 2020 at 3:25 pm

   The Zondervan KJV Commentary tells us, “There is some question whether he [who] behaveth himself uncomely (v. 36) refers to a father or to a potential bridegroom. The point seems to be whether the father (or bridgegroom) is disgracing himself by not allowing this young woman to marry. What if she pass the flower of her age and she wants children? What should happen? Paul instructed the father to do what he will. He would not be sinning to let them marry. If, however, the father standeth stedfast in his heart (v. 37), has power over his own will, and is determined in his heart that he will keep his daughter a virgin, he doeth well. He who allows her to marry doeth well, but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better (v. 38). It is better if she not marry. The father needs to act with all human and godly wisdom. Paul’s twists and turns in this matter show the seriousness of the events that continued to swirl around such problems in the early church. It “is not a case of what is morally right or wrong but of what is expedient or advantageous” (Vine, Collected Writings, p. 55).”

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