1 Corinthiens 7:37

37 Mais celui qui reste ferme dans son cœur, qui n'est pas contraint, qui au contraire est maître de sa volonté, et qui a décidé en son cœur de garder sa fille, fait bien.

1 Corinthiens 7:37 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 7:37

Nevertheless, he that standeth steadfast in his heart
The apostle returns to confirm his former advice, where it can be attended to with safety; and observes, that notwithstanding what he had allowed might lawfully be done, and was proper to be done; yet a man that had deliberated upon, and had well weighed the matter of virginity, the case of a single life, and was at a point about in, having no hesitation nor fluctuation of mind concerning it: and also "having no necessity"; of acting otherwise, either through the meanness of his circumstances, or rather through the weakness of his virgin, she not having the gift of continency:

but hath power over his own will;
his daughter's will being the same with his, and she entirely consenting to live a single life; otherwise he would have no power of acting as he pleased in such a case:

and hath so decreed in his heart:
it is a fixed point on mature deliberation, in which he himself is hearty and determined, and his child perfectly assents to it, so that on all hands it is an agreed matter:

that he will keep his virgin;
at home with him, unmarried, and not give her to any man in marriage:

doth well:
or that which is for both temporal and spiritual profit and advantage, as before observed. Some understand all this of a man's keeping his own virginity, and determining to continue unmarried.

1 Corinthiens 7:37 In-Context

35 Or, je dis ceci pour votre bien, et non pour vous tendre un piège, mais en vue de ce qui est honnête et de ce qui unit dans le Seigneur sans distraction.

36 Toutefois si quelqu'un croit que ce soit un déshonneur pour sa fille de passer la fleur de son âge sans être mariée, et s'il faut qu'il en soit ainsi, qu'il fasse ce qu'il voudra, il ne pèche point; que les filles se marient.

37 Mais celui qui reste ferme dans son cœur, qui n'est pas contraint, qui au contraire est maître de sa volonté, et qui a décidé en son cœur de garder sa fille, fait bien.

38 C'est pourquoi celui qui marie sa fille, fait bien; mais celui qui ne la marie pas, fait mieux.

39 La femme est liée à son mari par la loi tout le temps qu'il est en vie; mais si son mari meurt, elle est libre de se remarier à qui elle veut, seulement que ce soit selon le Seigneur.