⁹ But if they cannot exercise self-control, ^(A)they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

¹⁴ So I would have ^(A)younger widows marry, bear children, ^(B)manage their households, and ^(C)give the adversary no occasion for slander.

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

¹¹ But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when ^(A)their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry

²⁸ But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman^[a] marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

^39 (A)A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only ^(B)in the Lord.

³⁶ If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed,^[a] if his^[b] passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.