"If that," said the disciples, "is the position of a man with regard to his wife, it is better not to marry."
"It is not every one," replied Jesus, "who can accept this teaching, but only those who have been enabled to do so.
But I tell you that any one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of her unchastity, and marries another woman, is guilty of adultery."
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.
and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the Faith and have attained a full knowledge of the Truth.