25 Nowe concerning virgins, I haue no commaundement of the Lord: yet I giue my iudgement as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithfull.
26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distresse, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
27 Art thou bound vnto a wife? seeke not to bee loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seeke not a wife.
28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned, and if a virgin marry, shee hath not sinned: neuerthelesse, such shall haue trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short. It remaineth, that both they that haue wiues, be as though they had none:
30 And they that weepe, as though they wept not: and they that reioyce, as though they reioyced not: and they that buy, as though they possessed not:
31 And they that vse this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
32 But I would haue you without carefulnesse. He that is vnmarried, careth for the things that belÅgeth to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33 But hee that is maried, careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that shee may be holy, both in body and in spirit: but she that is married, careth for the things of the worlde, how shee may please her husband.
35 And this I speake for your owne profite, not that I may cast a snare vpon you, but for that which is comely, and that you may attend vpon the Lord without distraction.
36 But if any man thinke that he behaueth himselfe vncomely toward his virgin, if she passe the floure of her age, and neede so require, let him doe what hee will, hee sinneth not: let them marry.
37 Neuerthelesse, hee that standeth stedfast in his heart, hauing no necessitie, but hath power ouer his owne will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keepe his virgin, doeth well.
38 So then he that giueth her in mariage, doeth wel: but he that giueth her not in mariage, doeth better.
39 The wife is bound by the Lawe as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at liberty to bee maried to whom shee will, onely in the Lord.
40 But shee is happier if shee sobide, after my iudgment: and I thinke also that I haue the Spirit of God.
1 Cor 7:25-40
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