30. and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;
31. and those using this world, as not using [it] up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.
32. And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;
33. and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.
34. The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.
35. And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,
36. and if any one doth think [it] to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin--let him marry.
37. And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart--not having necessity--and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart--to keep his own virgin--doth well;
38. so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.
39. A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;