¹⁰ The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

¹⁸ And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

³ forbidding to marry, `and commanding' to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

³⁹ A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

⁴⁰ But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

³² But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

³³ but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

³⁴ and is divided. `So' also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

³⁵ And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

²⁶ I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, `namely,' that it is good for a man to be as he is.

²⁷ Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

²⁸ But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

⁸ But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

¹ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

² But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

⁹ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

¹⁴ House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

²² Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.

¹⁶ Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?

¹⁷ Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

¹⁹ `As' a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

¹¹ But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

¹² having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

¹³ And withal they learn also `to be' idle, going about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

¹⁴ I desire therefore that the younger `widows' marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

¹⁵ for already some are turned aside after Satan.