1 Corinthians 7:25 Commentary and Bible Study

But now the subject changes. ‘Now concerning virgins’ – young women who are unmarried, and probably the apostle uses the term rather broadly, and you can read young men who are unmarried as well. ‘Now, concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord’, which does not mean the apostle is now going to give his own opinion. It simply means that while on earth, Jesus Christ our Lord did not give, personally, instructions about young women getting married or young men getting married. ‘I have many things to say to you’, Christ says, ‘but you cannot take them or bear them now.’ So, much was revealed to the apostle Paul and others in the writing of New Testament Scriptures. That does not mean the apostle is giving uninspired instructions. ‘Yet I give my judgement,’ – but it was an inspired judgement; he is speaking as from the Lord – ‘as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.’ Faithful to what? Faithful to the inspired word that God has given. Paul will faithfully pass that on.