I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?