A Word To The Unmarried

[8] I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. [9] But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

• Paul
• Continence

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

• Virgin

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

• Brother

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.