But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them to remain as I am.
But I want you to be free from cares. An unmarried man cares about the things of the Lord—how he may please the Lord;
Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this way and another that.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Don’t we have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other emissaries and the Lord’s brothers and Kefa?