⁸ Now to the unmarried^[a] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.^(A)

²⁶ Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is.^(A)

²⁹ What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short.^(A) From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not;

¹⁹ How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!^(A)

²⁹ For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’^(A)