1 Corinthians 7:27-29

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. ²⁸ But if you marry, you do not sin, and if a virgin marries, she does not sin. Yet those who marry will experience distress in this life,^[a] and I would spare you that. ²⁹ I mean, brothers and sisters,^[b] the appointed time has grown short; from now on, let even those who have wives be as though they had none,