²⁷ Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

²⁸ But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of the flesh. But I spare you.

³² But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God.

³³ But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided.

³⁴ And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband.