26. I think then that this is good, on account of the present necessity, that it is good for a man to remain so as he is.
27. Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.
28. But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.
29. But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any: