Unmarried

Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to use a woman for sex.”

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.

I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, since it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

Now about virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I do give an opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is faithful.

Because of the present distress, I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will ) and has decided in his heart to keep her as his fiancée, will do well.

So then he who marries his fiancée does well, but he who does not marry will do better.

A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants — only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she remains as she is, in my opinion. And I think that I also have the Spirit of God.