To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain unmarried as I am.
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord,
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind.
Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?