1 Corinthians 7:6
World English Bible (WEB)
But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
In context
4 The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
5 Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
1 Corinthians 7:6 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
- KJV King James Version
- But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- I say this as a concession, not as a command.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and this I say by way of concurrence — not of command,
- DBY Darby Translation
- But this I say, as consenting [to], not as commanding [it].
- WBS Webster Bible
- But I speak this by permission, and not as a commandment.