To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is well for them to remain single as I do.
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well 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 his own special gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?