»If this is the case with a man in relation to his wife,« said the disciples to Him, »it is better not to marry.«
»It is not every man,« He replied, »who can receive this teaching, but only those on whom the grace has been bestowed.
And I tell you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery.«
But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.
forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.