But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.
I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.
And I would have you free from worldly anxiety. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord's business–how he shall please the Lord;
Yet I would that everybody lived as I do; but each of us has his own special gift from God–one in one direction and one in another.
Have we not a right to take with us on our journeys a Christian sister as our wife, as the rest of the Apostles do–and the Lord's brothers and Peter?