But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am;
But I want you to be without care. 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 each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?