7. Actually I would prefer that all of you were as I am; but each one has a special gift from God, one person this gift, another one that gift.
8. Now, to the unmarried and to the widows I say that it would be better for you to continue to live alone as I do.
9. But if you cannot restrain your desires, go ahead and marry — it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
10. For married people I have a command which is not my own but the Lord's: a wife must not leave her husband;