8 ¶ I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
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24 Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
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27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
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40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.