“Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Corinthians 7 contains 40 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.