That which I speak, I speak {it} not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

But I speak this by permission, {and} not of commandment.

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, {one} of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.

That which I speak, I speak {it} not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But I speak this by permission, {and} not of commandment.

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. {to put...: Heb. to bring forth}

And unto the married I command, {yet} not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from {her} husband:

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.