1 Corinthians 7:28 (WEB)
But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
Fathers and councils · 17
Ambrose of Milan
“Marriage, then, is honourable, but chastity is more honourable, for “he that giveth his virgin in marriage doeth well, but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…else in truth ought I more vigilantly to have given heed to the voice from the clouds: “Nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you;” and, “It is good for a man not to touch a woman;” and, “He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28.
Read the whole comment“Yet he added, “But such shall have tribulation of the flesh, but I spare you:” in this manner exhorting unto virginity, and continual continence, so as some little to alarm also from marriage, with all modesty, not as from a matter evil and unlawful, but as from one burdensome and troublesome.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28
Read the whole comment“…gives not in marriage, does better; and, if thou shalt have taken a wife, thou hast not sinned; and, if a virgin shall have been married, she sinneth not;” and a little after, “But she wilt be more blessed, if she shall have continued so, according to my judgment.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 38, 28, 40
Read the whole comment“And in this discussion when we came to that saying of the same Apostle, “But such shall have tribulation of the flesh, but I spare you;” we fell in with other disputants, who so far from making marriage equal to perpetual virginity, altogether condemned it.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28
Read the whole comment“Surely he, who had said above; “And, if thou shalt have taken a wife, thou hast not sinned; and, if a virgin shall have been married, she sinneth not.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28
Read the whole comment“…the kingdom of heaven, and in a future life: nor that other, where he saith of such as wed, “But such shall have tribulation of the flesh, but I spare you;” is to be so understood, as though he chose rather to be silent on, than to speak of, the sin and condemnation of marriage.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28
Read the whole comment“But now what shall we say against the most plain speech of the Apostle, saying, “Let her do what she will; she sinneth not, if she be married;” and, “If thou shalt have taken a wife, thou hast not sinned: and, if a virgin shall have been married, she sinneth not.”” — editor's note: Ver. 28
Read the whole comment“…a wife, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin shall have been married, she sinneth not:” and, “Let her do what she will: she sinneth not if she be married.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28, 36
Read the whole comment“But he who said, “If thou shall have taken a wife, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin shall have been married, she sinneth not:” and, “Let her do what she will, she sinneth not, if she be married,” hath made it plain enough that marriage is no sin.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28, 36
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John Chrysostom
“This also Paul said, when writing to the Corinthians, “But I spare you,” and, “lest such should have trouble in the flesh.” ( 1 Cor. vii. 28.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For having said nothing about the heavens there, for the time he urges it by things present, saying, “Because of the present distress,” and, “But I spare you,” and, “I would have you without carefulness.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 26, 28, 32.
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Jerome
“Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28.
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Tertullian
“But if thou shalt marry, thou wilt not sin.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 27, 28.
Read the whole comment“…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.
Read the whole comment“For even if you do not “sin” in re-marrying, still he says “pressure of the flesh ensues.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For I would have you without anxiety, in order to decorum and assiduity for the Lord, without distraction.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 28, 32, 35.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in To His Wife I.7.
Cited together in To His Wife I.7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Confessions II.2.
Cited together in Confessions II.2.
Cited together in Confessions II.2.
Cited together in Confessions II.2.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 12.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 12.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 12.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 12.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 12.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 12.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 12.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 11.