Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

On the other hand, he who is firm in his purpose and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has determined to keep his daughter unmarried, does well.

Now as to eating food that has been offered to idols, we know well that an idol has no real existence in the universe, and that there is no God but One.

But in most of them God was not well pleased, for they were laid low in the desert.