⁹ But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.^(A)

¹⁴ So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.^(A)

² But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

¹¹ But refuse to put younger widows on the list, for when their sensual desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry,

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 the flesh, and I would spare you that.

³⁹ A wife is bound as long as her husband lives. But if the husband dies,^[a] she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.^(A)

³⁶ If anyone thinks that he is behaving indecently toward his fiancée,^[a] if his passions are strong and so it has to be, let him marry as he wishes; it is no sin. Let them marry.