Now as a concession, not a command, I say this.

我说这话，原是准你们的，不是命你们的。

我说这话是出于容忍，不是命令。

我说这话是出于容忍，不是命令。

我这番话是准许你们结婚，并不是命令你们结婚。

我说这话是容许你们，并不是命令。

不过我说这话是出于容忍，而不是出于命令。

我說這話，原是准你們的，不是命你們的。

我說這話是出於容忍，不是命令。

我說這話是出於容忍，不是命令。

我這番話是准許你們結婚，並不是命令你們結婚。

我說這話是容許你們，並不是命令。

我說這話、是按讓步特許的辦法，不是憑詔命說的。

不過我說這話是出於容忍，而不是出於命令。

我言此、許也、非命也、

我言此、權也、非命也、

我言此、乃所許、非所命也、

然吾作此論、乃係體諒人情、非命令也。

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

I say those things to you as my advice, not as a command.

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

But this I say by way of concession, not of command.

But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

I say the following as a concession, not as a command.

But I speak this by permission,[ and] not of commandment.

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.

Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.

To the rest I say( I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.

What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would but as a fool.