I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.
Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
But I would have you without anxiety. He who is unmarried is anxious about the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
For I would prefer that all men were even like I myself. But every man has his own gift from God, one of one kind, and another of a different kind.
Do we not have the right to lead around a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and like the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?