1 Corinthians 7:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 7 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 Marriage is to be used as a remedy against fornication. 1 Corinthians 7:10,11 Christ hath forbidden to dissolve the bond thereof. 1 Corinthians 7:12-16 Directions how to act where one of the parties is an unbeliever. 1 Corinthians 7:17-24 Every man must abide in and fulfil the duties of the state wherein he was called. 1 Corinthians 7:25-38 Directions concerning the marriage of virgins, respecting the distress of the times, 1 Corinthians 7:39,40 and concerning the second marriage of widows. It seemeth, that though this church was very much corrupted, yet some of them retained a reverence for this great apostle, and had wrote one or more letters to him about some points, to which he returneth answer. It seemeth that one thing they had wrote to him about, was about marriage; not about the lawfulness of marrying, (that doctrine of devils was not broached so early in the world), but concerning the advisableness of marriage, and men's use of their wives, in that afflicted state of the church. The apostle answereth, that it is good for a man not to touch a woman. When he saith: It is good, he means only more convenient, or better, with respect to the troubled state of the church, or that persons might be more at liberty for the service of God and the duties of religion. Upon these accounts it were more convenient for a man not to marry, for that he meaneth by touching a woman.