Now to the unmarried[a] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.(A) But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry,(B) for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:8 Or widowers

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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