I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
I suppose - `I consider.'
This - namely, "for a man so to be," in the same state in which he is (1 Corinthians 7:27).
For х dia (G1223)] - by reason of.
The present distress - to which believers were then beginning to be subjected, making the married state less desirable, and which should prevail throughout the world before the destruction of Jerusalem, according to Christ's prophecy (Matthew 24:8-21: cf. Acts 11:28).