29. This therefore I say, brethren; the time is short; it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none;
30. And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
31. And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
32. But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please God.
33. But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided.
34. And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband.