³⁸ So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

⁴ Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

³⁷ Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

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

² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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

²⁶ I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

³² 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:

³³ But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

³⁴ 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.