- I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
- Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
- But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
- But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
- And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
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- Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for you to remain as you are.
- Are you married? Do not seek a divorce. Are you unmarried? Do not look for a wife.
- But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face many troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.
- What I mean, brothers, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they had none;
- those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep;
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