Marriage {is} honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: {It is} good for a man not to touch a woman.

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: {that belong...: Gr. of the Lord}

Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, {I say}, that {it is} good for a man so to be. {distress: or, necessity}

Marriage {is} honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.