26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
27 Are you bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28 But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
30 And 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;
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away.
32 But I would have you without concern. He that is unmarried cares for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: