The Single Life (1 Cor. 7:25-40)
- Paul gives advice, rather than issues commandments – 7:25, 35, 40. Usually Paul writes with apostolic authority – 14:37.
- Meaning of ‘the present distress’ (7:26). Famine? Persecution?
- 7:36-38. To an engaged couple (ESV, Bruce Winter) or to parents and their virgin unmarried daughter (NASB, Calvin).
- God honours the single