1 Corinthians 7:8

Modern English Version

I say to the unmarried and widows that it is good for them if they live even as I am.

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Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”

But I prefer that you have no concern. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift from God, one after this manner and another after that.

Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife as do other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?