1 Corinthians 7:38 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

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.

1 Corinthians 7:38

38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.