Matthew 19:11
but he reply'd, 'tis not everyman can live single, but only such as have the gift of continency.
1 Corinthians 7:17
Whatever condition God has allotted to any man, let him go on in the same state he was in when he became a christian: this I give as a standing rule to all churches.
Matthew 13:11
to whom he answered, because you are allowed to know the mysteries of the gospel-dispensation, but to them it is not allowed.
1 Corinthians 7:2
I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:7-9
for I wish that all men were as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift from God, some one way, and some another.
1 Corinthians 7:35
And this I say for your particular advantage, not to lay any constraint upon you, but as that which is most suitable to a state of uninterrupted attendance upon religion.