1 Corinthians 7:8

New International Reader's Version

I speak now to those who are not married. I also speak to widows. It is good for you to stay single like me.

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Now I want to deal with the things you wrote me about. Some of you say, “It is good for a man not to sleep with a woman.”

I don’t want you to have anything to worry about. A single man is concerned about the Lord’s matters. He wants to know how he can please the Lord.

I wish all of you were single like me. But you each have your own gift from God. One has this gift, and another has that one.

Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife with us when we travel? The other apostles do. The Lord’s brothers do. Peter does.