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To the unmarried and to the widows (tois agamois kai tais chērais). It is possible that by “the unmarried” (masculine plural) the apostle means only men since widows are added and since virgins receive special treatment later (1Co 7:25) and in 1Co 7:32 ho agamos is the unmarried man. It is hardly likely that Paul means only widowers and widows and means to call himself a widower by hōs kagō (even as I). After discussing marital relations in 1Co 7:2-7 he returns to the original question in 1Co 7:1 and repeats his own personal preference as in 1Co 7:7. He does not say that it is better to be unmarried, but only that it is good (kalon as in 1Co 7:1) for them to remain unmarried. Agamos is an old word and in N.T. occurs only in this passage. In 1Co 7:11, 1Co 7:34 it is used of women where the old Greeks would have used anandros, without a husband.