³⁶ But if anyone thinks that he is acting dishonorably toward his virgin, if she is ^[a]past her youth and it ought to be so, let him do what he wishes, he is not sinning; let ^[b]them marry. ³⁷ But the one who stands firm in his heart, ^[c]if he is not under constraint, but has authority ^[d]over his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well. ³⁸ So then, both the one who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and the one who does not give her in marriage will do better.