25. Now concerning virgins I do not have a command from the Lord, but I am giving an opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy.
26. Therefore, I consider this to be good because of the impending distress, that it is good for a man to be thus.
27. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
28. But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.
29. But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as if they do not have wives,