Now to the unmarried[a] and the widows I say: it is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

10 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): a wife must not separate from her husband.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:8 Or widowers