But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another. To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
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