1 Corinthians 7:25-29

25Now concerning the virgins [of marriageable age] I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.

26I think then that because of the impending distress [that is, the pressure of the current trouble], it is good for a man to remain as he is.

27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you unmarried? Do not seek a wife.

28But if you do marry, you have not sinned [in doing so]; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned [in doing so]. Yet those [who marry] will have troubles (special challenges) in this life, and I am trying to spare you that.

29But I say this, believers: the time has been shortened, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they did not;