1 Corinthians 7:25-29

25Now concerning virgins, I have 1no command of the Lord, but I am offering direction as one who 23by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.

26I think, then, that this is good in view of the 4present 5distress, that 6it is good for a man 7to remain as he is.

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

28But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people as yourselves will have 8trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

29But this I say, brothers, 9the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;