26. Therefore, I consider this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be such as I am.
27. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free of a wife? Do not seek a wife.
28. But if you take a wife, you have not sinned. And if a virgin has married, she has not sinned. Even so, such as these will have the tribulation of the flesh. But I would spare you from this.
29. And so, this is what I say, brothers: The time is short. What remains of it is such that: those who have wives should be as if they had none;
30. and those who weep, as though they were not weeping; and those who rejoice, as if they were not rejoicing; and those who buy, as if they possessed nothing;
31. and those who use the things of this world, as if they were not using them. For the figure of this world is passing away.
32. But I would prefer you to be without worry. Whoever is without a wife is worried about the things of the Lord, as to how he may please God.
33. But whoever is with a wife is worried about the things of the world, as to how he may please his wife. And so, he is divided.