| 7:25 | Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord. But I give counsel, as one who has obtained the mercy of the Lord, so as to be faithful. |
| 7:26 | Therefore, I consider this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be such as I am. |
| 7:27 | Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free of a wife? Do not seek a wife. |
| 7:28 | But if you take a wife, you have not sinned. And if a virgin has married, she has not sinned. Even so, such as these will have the tribulation of the flesh. But I would spare you from this. |
| 7:29 | And so, this is what I say, brothers: The time is short. What remains of it is such that: those who have wives should be as if they had none; |
| 7:30 | and those who weep, as though they were not weeping; and those who rejoice, as if they were not rejoicing; and those who buy, as if they possessed nothing; |
| 7:31 | and those who use the things of this world, as if they were not using them. For the figure of this world is passing away. |
