Then I think this is good, because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be so.
I say therefore to the unmarried and the widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.
Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
For the time has come for the judgment to begin from the house of God. And if it first begins from us, what will be the end of those disobeying the gospel of God?
But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.
But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.
And woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.