1Co 7:9
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
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I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. {to speak...: Gr. for their railing}
Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
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 if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of {her} age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of {her} age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, {false...: or, one who foments strife}