¹⁰ His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

¹⁸ And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'

³ forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

³⁹ A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

⁴⁰ and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

³² And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

³³ and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

³⁴ The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

³⁵ And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

²⁶ I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that `it is' good for a man that the matter be thus: --

²⁷ Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

²⁸ But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

⁸ And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';

¹ And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,

² and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

¹⁹ Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than `with' a woman of contentions and anger.

⁹ Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than `with' a woman of contentions and a house of company.

¹³ A calamity to his father `is' a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife `are' a continual dropping.

¹⁴ House and wealth `are' the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah `is' an understanding wife.

²² `Whoso' hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

¹⁶ Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

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

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

¹⁹ A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

¹¹ and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

¹² having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,

¹³ and at the same time also, they learn `to be' idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

¹⁴ I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

¹⁵ for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.