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1 Corinthians 7:27 (WEB)
Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

Fathers and councils · 10

Jerome, Against Jovinianus Book 1
“If it is good for a man so to be, it is bad for a man not so to be.“Art thou bound unto a wife?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 27.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 145
“Seek not a wife;” that is, seek not that binding which is contrary to loosing.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 27.
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Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Virgins I.6Book I
“Seek not a wife.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 27.
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Athanasius of Alexandria, Defence Against the Arians I.1Part I
“…himself from the second, again he takes possession of another’s, casting an evil eye all around him upon the cities of other men, and thinking that godliness consists in wealth and in the greatness of cities, and making light of the heritage of God to which he had been appointed; not knowing that ‘where’ even ‘two…” — editor's note: 1 Tim. vi. 5; Matt. xviii. 20; 2 Cor. x. 15; 1 Cor. vii. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo, Of Holy Virginity Chapter 15
“After that the same Apostle adds, and says, “Thou art bound to a wife, seek not loosening: thou art loosed from a wife, seek not a wife.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 27
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Tertullian, On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 3
“But if thou shalt marry, thou wilt not sin.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 27, 28.
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 16
“…a virgin shall have married, she sinneth not; pressure, however, of the flesh such shall have,”—even here he is granting a permission by way of “sparing them.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 26–28, constantly quoted in previous treatises.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.6Book V
“For the apostle, although preferring the grace of continence, yet permits the contraction of marriage and the enjoyment of it, and advises the continuance therein rather than the dissolution thereof.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 27.
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Tertullian, To His Wife I.7Book I
““You have been bound to a wife,” says the apostle; “seek not loosing.” — editor's note: “Matrimonio,” or “by matrimony.” Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 27: δέδεσαι γυναικί; μὴ ζήτει λύσιν· λέλυσαι ἀπὸ γυναικός; μὴ ζήτει γυναῖκα. Tertullian’s rendering, it will…
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Book 3
“Solutus es ab uxore? ne quæras uxorem.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 27.
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