Nevertheless, because of sexual perversion, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but prostitutes and adulterers God will judge.

Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am;

I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present necessity; that it is good for a man to be thus:

But I want you to be free from anxiety. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord; how to please the Lord.

There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world; how to please her husband.