1 Korinther 7:37

37 Wenn einer aber sich fest vornimmt, weil er ungezwungen ist und seinen freien Willen hat, und beschließt solches in seinem Herzen, seine Jungfrau also bleiben zu lassen, der tut wohl. {~} {~}

1 Korinther 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 Korinther 7:37 In-Context

35 Solches aber sage ich zu eurem Nutzen; nicht, daß ich euch einen Strick um den Hals werfe, sondern dazu, daß es fein zugehe und ihr stets ungehindert dem HERRN dienen könntet.

36 So aber jemand sich läßt dünken, es wolle sich nicht schicken mit seiner Jungfrau, weil sie eben wohl mannbar ist, und es will nichts anders sein, so tue er, was er will; er sündigt nicht, er lasse sie freien.

37 Wenn einer aber sich fest vornimmt, weil er ungezwungen ist und seinen freien Willen hat, und beschließt solches in seinem Herzen, seine Jungfrau also bleiben zu lassen, der tut wohl. {~} {~}

38 Demnach, welcher verheiratet, der tut wohl; welcher aber nicht verheiratet, der tut besser.

39 Ein Weib ist gebunden durch das Gesetz, solange ihr Mann lebt; so aber ihr Mann entschläft, ist sie frei, zu heiraten, wen sie will, nur, daß es im HERRN geschehe.