7:25. Now, concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: but I
give counsel, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

7:26. I think therefore that this is good for the present necessity:
that it is good for a man so to be.

7:27. Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed
from a wife? Seek not a wife.

7:28. But if thou take a wife, thou hast not sinned. And if a virgin
marry, she hath not sinned: nevertheless, such shall have tribulation of
the flesh. But I spare you.

7:29. This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth,
that they also who have wives be as if they had none:

7:30. And they that weep, as though they wept not: and they that
rejoice, as if they rejoiced not: and they that buy as if they possessed
not:

7:31. And they that use this world, as if they used it not. For the
fashion of this world passeth away.

7:32. 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.

7:33. 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.

7:34. 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.

7:35. And this I speak for your profit, not to cast a snare upon you,
but for that which is decent and which may give you power to attend upon
the Lord, without impediment.

7:36. But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to
his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do
what he will. He sinneth not if she marry.

Let him do what he will; he sinneth not, etc... The meaning is not, as
libertines would have it, that persons may do what they will and not
sin, provided they afterwards marry; but that the father, with regard to
the giving his virgin in marriage, may do as he pleaseth; and that it
will be no sin to him if she marry.

7:37. For he that hath determined, being steadfast in his heart, having
no necessity, but having power of his own will: and hath judged this in
his heart, to keep his virgin, doth well.

7:38. Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well:
and he that giveth her not doth better.

7:39. A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband live