and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.
And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,
And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,
and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,
And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';
I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.
since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,
and an opinion in this do I give: for this to you `is' expedient, who not only to do, but also to will, did begin before -- a year ago,
he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.