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# Are you bound ... Do not seek ... Are you free ... Do not seek ... you do ... you have
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Paul is speaking to the Corinthians as if he were speaking to each person, so all these instances of "you" and the command "do not seek" here are singular. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-you]])
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# Are you bound to a woman? Do not ...
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Paul uses this question to introduce a possible condition. The question can be translated with "if." AT: "If you are bound to a woman, do not" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Are you bound to a woman
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Here "bound to a woman" is a metaphor for being married to a woman, as if the husband and wife are tied to each other. AT: "Are you attached to a woman" or "Are you married" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]).
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# Do not seek to be free of her
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Here being free of a woman, or untied to a woman, is a metaphor for not being married to her. AT: "Do not try to be separated from her" or "Do not divorce her" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Are you free of a wife? Do not ...
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Paul uses this question to introduce a possible condition. The question can be translated with "if." AT: "If you are free of a wife, do not" or "If you do not have a wife, do not" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# Are you free of a wife
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Paul addresses men who are not married. Here being free of a wife, or untied to a wife, is a metaphor for not being married. AT: "Are you untied to a wife" or "Are you without a wife" or "Are you unmarried" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Do not seek a wife
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"Do not try to get married"
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# committed
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"done"
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# I would like to spare you from them
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"I do not want you to have them"
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/free]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/sin]] |