Nevertheless , to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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Gill's Exposition
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication,.... Or "fornications"; meaning either the frequent commission of that sin; or all sorts of uncleanness and pollution, which may be avoided by wedlock, and the…
Barnes' Notes
Nevertheless - But (δὲ de). Though this is to be admitted as proper where it can be done, when a man has entire control of himself and his passions, and though in present circumstances it would be…
Adam Clarke
To avoid fornication - Δια τας πορνειας· verto, propter exercendam libidinem, vel ut libidinem licite exercere liceat. Probo hanc notionem ex Hebraeo, ibi זנה, zanah, est libidinem exercere, Hos 4:10…
The apostle comes now, as a faithful and skilful casuist, to answer some cases of conscience which the Corinthians had proposed to him. Those were things whereof they wrote to him, Co1 7:1. As the…
Cambridge Bible
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication Literally, on account of the fornications, i.e. the habitual practice of this vice in the Church of Corinth. See note on ch. 1Co 6:13. We are not to suppose (see…
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