But she is more blessed if she remains this way according to my opinion. And I also seem to have Spirit of God.
Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.
I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.
And I say this for your own benefit, not that I may cast restraint upon you, but for what is respectable and assiduous toward the Lord, undistracted.
But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I.
But I say this from concession not from commandment.
Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
And in this I give judgment, for this is expedient for you who earlier began, from a year ago, not only the doing but also the intending.
since ye seek proof of the Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is mighty in you.