But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they should remain as I also remain;
Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
But I want you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man cares about the things of the Lord--about how he may please the Lord.
For I wish that all men would be as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that.
Do we have no right to take along a wife who is a sister, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?