My advice, then, to those who are not married, and to widows, is this: It would be well for them to remain as I am myself.
With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It would be well for a man to remain single.
I want you to be free from anxiety. The unmarried man is anxious about the Master's Cause, desiring to please him;
I should wish every one to be just what I am myself. But every one has his own gift from God-one in one way, and one in another.
Have not we a right to take a wife with us, if she is a Christian, as the other Apostles and the Master's brothers and Kephas all do?