Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress, that [it is] good for a man to be as he is:

Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Have you been released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

But I want you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man cares about the things of the Lord--[about] how he may please the Lord.

And the wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the woman having married cares about the things of the world--about how she may please her husband.

And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a snare upon you, but for that which is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.