forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with giving thanks, of them which believe, and know the truth.

"Thou shalt take thee no wife, nor beget children in this place.

Turn again my daughters and go: for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, also if I took a man this night: yea, and though I had already borne sons?

Would ye tarry after them, till they were of age? Or would ye for them so long refrain from taking of husbands? Not so, my daughters: for it grieveth me much for your sakes, that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me."

The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not given in marriage.

Then said his disciples to him, "If the matter be so between man and wife, then is it not good to marry."

As concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man, not to touch a woman.

But and if thou take a wife, thou sinnest not. Likewise if a virgin marry, she sinneth not. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in their flesh: but I saver you.

So then he that joineth his virgin in marriage doth well. But he that joineth not his virgin in marriage doth better.

As for your mother, ye shall chide with her, and reprove her: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband, unless she put away her whoredoms out of my sight, and her adultery from her breasts.

This say I, brethren: the time is short. It remaineth that they which have wives, be as though they had none: