23 You were bought at a price. Do not be the servants of men.
24 Brothers, let every man, in whatever condition he is called, remain there with God.
25 Now concerning virgins, I have no command from the Lord. Yet I will give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.
26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.
27 Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be uncommitted. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless they will have trouble in this life, but I would spare you that.
29 But this I say, brothers, the time is short. It remains that those who have wives should be as though they had none;