Now to the unmarried and to widows I say: it is a good thing for them to remain as they are, as I do,
Now in regard to the matters about which you wrote: “It is a good thing for a man not to touch a woman,”
I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
Indeed, I wish everyone to be as I am, but each has a particular gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
Do we not have the right to take along a Christian wife, as do the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?