In Times Like These, Should Single People Look for a Spouse? Maybe, or Maybe Not.

What About Marriage? Should I Look For a Spouse?

(1st Corinthians chapter 7, verses 1–9)

Today as I continue to dissect the first book of Corinthians, but with words instead of sharp objects, I will begin chapter 7, which is quite probably the finest behavioral commentary about relations between the sexes in existence (with the possible exception of Ephesians chapters 5 and 6, which I will cover later). Since this is a lengthy chapter with a lot of timely commentary and Christian guidance, I will be breaking this up into three parts. I ask the Lord’s guidance regarding this, and I’m confident that He will lead me in the way I should present this sacred and beautiful document. Let’s begin with chapter 7 and verse 1.

“Now for the matters you wrote about: ‘It is good for a man not to marry’. But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may…