But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.
But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God.
For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that.
NOW concerning the thing whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Have we not power to carry about a woman, a sister, as well as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?