1 Corinthians 7:25-40 - Concerning The Unmarried
25 But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. 26 I think, then, that this is good for the present affliction that it is good for a man to be as he is. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Seek not a separation. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife. 28 But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you. 29 Now, this I say, brethren, the time is fraught with trials. It remains that those who have wives be as though they had them not; 30 and those who weep, as though they wept not; and those who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those who buy, as though they possessed not: 31 and those who use this world, as not abusing it; for the outward show of this world passes away.
32 But I would have you to be without anxiety. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: 33 but he that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. 34 There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit; but she that is married, is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. 35 I speak this for your own profit; not that I would entangle you, but that you may decorously and devotedly wait upon the Lord, without distraction.
36 But if any man thinks he would treat his virgin daughter amiss, should she pass the bloom of life, and it is necessary that it should be so, let him do as he pleases, he does not sin; let them (the suitor and the daughter) marry. 37 But he that stands firm in his purpose, having no necessity to give his daughter in marriage, but has liberty with respect to his own will, and has thus decided in his own heart, that he will keep his daughter a virgin, does well. 38 So then, even he that gives her in marriage, does well; but he that gives her not in marriage, does better.
39 The wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband die, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier, in my judgment, if she remains as she is; and I think that I have, also, the Spirit of God.