Matthew 19:11
But He replied, "Not all men can accept such an arrangement [i.e., not marrying], but it is [only] for those who have the capacity for accepting it.
1 Corinthians 7:17
Each person should live according to what the Lord has given him and in the state he was when God called him. And this is what I require in all the churches.
Matthew 13:11
He replied, "You disciples are being given an understanding of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but the crowds of people are not.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But, because of so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:7-9
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1 Corinthians 7:35
Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not in order to put [unreasonable] restrictions on you, but that you may do whatever is proper and devote yourselves to the Lord's service without distraction.