1 Corinthians 7:37
35 I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.
36 However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.
But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.
38 So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.
39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.
Dette ble sagt til Israel i en bestemt tid, så det er lurt å lese det sammen med teksten rundt. Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.
Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Men den som står fast i sitt hjerte og ikke har noe som tvinger ham, men har frihet til å følge sin egen vilje og har satt seg dette fore i sitt hjerte at han vil holde sin datter ugift, han gjør vel.
- OTB
- Men den som står fast i sitt hjerte, ikke under tvang, men har kontroll over sin egen vilje, og har bestemt i sitt eget hjerte å beholde sin forlovede, vil gjøre godt.
- B1930
- Men den som står fast i sitt hjerte og ikke har noget som tvinger ham, men har frihet til å følge sin egen vilje og har satt sig dette fore i sitt hjerte at han vil holde sin datter ugift, han gjør vel.
- BSB
- But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.
- KJV
- Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
- WEB
- But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.
- ASV
- But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching in his own heart, to keep his own virgin [daughter], shall do well.
- DARBY
- But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.
- BLB
- But he who has stood steadfast in his heart, not having necessity but having authority over [his] own will, and has judged this in [his] own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well.