And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';
And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,
And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;
for I wish all men to be even as I myself `am'; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.
have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?