Matthew 19:11
He said to them, "True, but this truth is not practicable for everyone, it is only for those who have the gift.
1 Corinthians 7:17
Only, everyone must lead the lot assigned him by the Lord; he must go on living the life in which God's call came to him. (Such is the rule I lay down for all the churches).
Matthew 13:11
He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.
1 Corinthians 7:2
but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.
1 Corinthians 7:7-9
I would like all men to be as I am. However, everyone is endowed by God in his own way; he has a gift for the one life or the other.
1 Corinthians 7:35
I am saying this in your own interests. Not that I want to restrict your freedom. It is only to secure decorum and concentration upon a life of devotion to the Lord.