What is the "present crisis" in 1 Corinthians 7? In 1 Corinthians 7, Paul says regarding marriage,


  Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is.


What is the "present crisis"?
There are plenty of predictions by Jesus and more in the the Epistles that prepared believers not only for the widespread persecuatuon that befell as well as the destruction of Jerusalem.  This seems to be a strigjtforward meaning of the crisis that many commnetators note. For example Hodge takes this view:


  The awful desolation which was soon to fall upon Jerusalem and on the whole Jewish race, and which could not but involve more or less the Christians also, and the inevitable struggles and persecutions which, according to our Lord’s predictions, his followers were to encounter, were surely enough to create a deep impression on the apostle’s mind, and to make him solicitous to prepare his brethren for the coming storm. It is not necessary, therefore, to assume, as is so often done, that the apostle anticipated the second advent of Christ during that generation, and that he refers to the calamities which were to precede that event. (Charles Hodge Commentary on First Corinthians, P128)