1 Corinthians 7:33
Good News Translation
But a married man concerns himself with worldly matters, because he wants to please his wife;

New Revised Standard Version
but the married man is anxious about the affairs of the world, how to please his wife,

Contemporary English Version
But a married man has more worries. He must worry about the things of this world, because he wants to please his wife.

New American Bible
But a married man is anxious about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided.

careth.

Nehemiah 5:1-5 Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. . . .

Luke 12:22 And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you: Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on.

1 Thessalonians 4:11,12 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet: and that you do your own business and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without: and that you want nothing of any man's. . . .

1 Timothy 5:8 But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

how.

1 Corinthians 7:3 Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

1 Samuel 1:4-8 Now the day came, and Elcana offered sacrifice, and gave to Phenenna, his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, portions: . . .

Ephesians 5:25-33 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it: . . .

Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter towards them.

1 Peter 3:7 Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

Context
The Unmarried and Widowed
32But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God. 33But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided. 34And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her husband.…
Cross References
Luke 14:20
And another said: I have married a wife; and therefore I cannot come.

John 10:13
And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

1 Corinthians 7:32
But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God.

1 Corinthians 7:34
And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world: how she may please her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:32
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