But I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them, if they would remain as they are, just as I also am.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
But I would prefer you to be without worry. Whoever is without a wife is worried about the things of the Lord, as to how he may please God.
For I would prefer it if you were all like myself. But each person has his proper gift from God: one in this way, yet another in that way.
Do we not have the authority to travel around with a woman who is a sister, just as do the other Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?