Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I suppose—"I consider."
this—namely, "for a man so to be," that is, in the same state in which he is (I Corinthians 7:27).
for—by reason of.
the present distress—the distresses to which believers were then beginning to be subjected, making the married state less desirable than the single; and which would prevail throughout the world before the destruction of Jerusalem, according to Christ's prophecy (Matthew 24:8-21; compare Acts 11:28).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 7:26:
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