Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
no commandment of the Lord: yet . . . my judgment—I have no express revelation from the Lord commanding it, but I give my judgment (opinion); namely, under the ordinary inspiration which accompanied the apostles in all their canonical writings (compare I Corinthians 7:40; I Corinthians 14:37; I Thessalonians 4:15). The Lord inspires me in this case to give you only a recommendation, which you are free to adopt or reject—not a positive command. In the second case (I Corinthians 7:10-11) it was a positive command; for the Lord had already made known His will (Malachi 2:14-15; Matthew 5:31-32). In the third case (I Corinthians 7:12), the Old Testament commandment of God to put away strange wives (Ezra 10:3), Paul by the Spirit revokes.
mercy of the Lord— (I Timothy 1:13). He attributes his apostleship and the gifts accompanying it (including inspiration) to God's grace alone.
faithful—in dispensing to you the inspired directions received by me from the Lord.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 7:25:
1 Corinthians 7:10
1 Corinthians 7:40
1 Thessalonians 2:4
1 Timothy 1:2
1 Timothy 1:12
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