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Saturday, August 16th, 2025
the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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Darby's French Translation

1 Corinthiens 7:38

Ainsi, et celui qui se marie fait bien; et celui qui ne se marie pas fait mieux.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Celibacy;   Continence;   Marriage;   Wife;   The Topic Concordance - Marriage;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Virgin;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Polygamy;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Inspiration;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Celibacy;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Marriage (Ii.);   Virgin Virginity;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Virgin;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ascetics;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Celui donc qui la marie fait bien, mais celui qui ne la marie pas, fait mieux.
La Bible Ostervald (1996)
C'est pourquoi celui qui marie sa fille, fait bien; mais celui qui ne la marie pas, fait mieux.
Louis Segond (1910)
Ainsi, celui qui marie sa fille fait bien, et celui qui ne la marie pas fait mieux.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

then: 1 Corinthians 7:28

doeth well: 1 Corinthians 7:2, Hebrews 13:4

doeth better: 1 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Corinthians 7:8, 1 Corinthians 7:26, 1 Corinthians 7:32-34, 1 Corinthians 7:37

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:21 - a wife Acts 21:9 - virgins

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doth well,.... Does that which is in its own nature good; that which is agreeable to the will of God, is of his institution and appointment, and therefore must be good, and answer many good ends and purposes. Such an one that marries his daughter, he seeing a necessity for it, and a propriety in it, does a very good thing; secures her chastity, and his own credit; prevents fornication, and other evils that might follow; consults the good of mankind, and the honour of religion.

But he that giveth [her] not in marriage doth better; not a better action in itself, simply considered; but more profitable and advantageous under such and such circumstances, with such and such conditions and consequences; since hereby a single person is more fit to encounter with and endure persecutions, is freer from the cares of life, and more at liberty to wait upon the Lord, and give up himself to his service.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Doeth well - Does right; violates no law in it, and is not to be blamed for it.

Doeth better - Does that which is on the whole to be preferred, if it can be done. He more certainly, in the present circumstances, consults her happiness by withholding her from the marriage connection than he could by allowing her to enter it.


 
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