Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

The flower

He sinneth

Bible References

The flower

1 Samuel 2:33
Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.

And need

1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

He sinneth

1 Corinthians 7:28
But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.