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Are you boundδέδεσαιto a wife?γυναικίDo notμὴseekζήτειto be released.λύσινAre you releasedλέλυσαιfromἀπὸa wife?γυναικόςDo notμὴseekζήτειa wife.γυναῖκα
1 Corinthians 7:27
Study it in the app“Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.”
With the Greek beneath
1 Corinthians 7:27, word by word
- Are you boundδέδεσαιdedesai
forbid
To forbid or bind: "whatever you bind on earth".
Where else “dedesai” appears- to a wifeγυναικίgynaiki
wife
A married woman, joined to her husband.
Where else “gynaiki” appears- seekζήτειzētei
try
To try for something; to be after someone's life is to plan to kill them.
Where else “zētei” appears- to be releasedλύσινlysin
release, separation
Release, separation: being loosed from a bond.
Where else “lysin” appears- Are you releasedλέλυσαιlelysai
untie
To undo bonds, or set someone free.
Where else “lelysai” appears
The context
26I think, then, that this is good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
27 · This verse (above)
28But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.