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
And need
He sinneth
Bible References
The flower
1 Samuel 2:33
The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
And need
1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.
He sinneth
1 Corinthians 7:28
But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.