To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are.
I want you to be free from all anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the Lord's affairs, how best to satisfy the Lord;
I would like all men to be as I am. However, everyone is endowed by God in his own way; he has a gift for the one life or the other.
Now about the questions in your letter. It is an excellent thing for a man to have no intercourse with a woman;
Have we no right to travel with a Christian wife, like the rest of the apostles, like the brothers of the Lord, like Cephas himself?