First Reading
1 Corinthians 7:25-31
- 25
Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.
- 26
I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity, that it is good for a man so to be.
- 27
Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
- 28
But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.
- 29
This therefore I say, brethren; the time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none;
- 30
And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
- 31
And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition · public domain · 73 books. Psalm numbers follow the Roman lectionary.