But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: {that belong...: Gr. of the Lord}

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: {It is} good for a man not to touch a woman.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

{It is} better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. {a brawling...: Heb. a woman of contentions} {a wide...: Heb. an house of society}

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.

But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

{It is} better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. {in...: Heb. in the land of the desert}

Forbidding to marry, {and commanding} to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

{Whoso} findeth a wife findeth a good {thing}, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

A foolish son {is} the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife {are} a continual dropping.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, {I say}, that {it is} good for a man so to be. {distress: or, necessity}

And the LORD God said, {It is} not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. {meet...: Heb. as before him}

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: {It is} good for a man not to touch a woman.