1 Corinthians 7:25-40 : King James Version
7 25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the
Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the
Lord to be faithful. 26I suppose therefore that this is
good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so
to be. 27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be
loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. 28But
and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she
hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh:
but I spare you. 29But this I say, brethren, the time is
short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though
they had none; 30And they that weep, as though they wept
not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they
that buy, as though they possessed not; 31And they that
use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world
passeth away. 32But 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: 33But he that is married
careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his
wife. 34There is difference also between a wife and a
virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that
she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married
careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may
cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may
attend upon the Lord without distraction. 36But if any
man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if
she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what
he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. 37Nevertheless
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. 38So then he that
giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in
marriage doeth better. 39The wife is bound by the law as
long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at
liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 40But
she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also
that I have the Spirit of God.