But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry
But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.
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