Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them if they remain even as I am.
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote to me: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
But I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, how he will please the Lord.
For I wish that all people were as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one person in this manner and another in that manner.
Do we not have a right to take along a wife who is a sister in Christ, as do the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?