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Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that hath obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful.
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I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.
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Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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But if thou marry, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.
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But this I say, brethren, The time [is] short. It remaineth, that both they that have wives, be as though they had none;