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I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.
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Are you bound to a wife? Don`t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don`t seek a wife.
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But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
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But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
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and those who weep, as though they didn`t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn`t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn`t possess;
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and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
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But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;