Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free of a wife? Do not seek a wife.
Let each and every one remain in the same calling to which he was called.
Therefore, I consider this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be such as I am.
But if you take a wife, you have not sinned. And if a virgin has married, she has not sinned. Even so, such as these will have the tribulation of the flesh. But I would spare you from this.