1Now concerning the things you wrote: it is good for a man not to touch a woman;
2but because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3Let the husband render to his wife what is due her, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4The wife does not exousiazo(have-authority-over) her own body but the husband does; and likewise the husband does not exousiazo(have-authority-over) his own body but the wife does.
5Do not deprive one another except by agreement for a kairos(appointed-time), so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer, and come together again so that satan(adversary) will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6But I say this as a concession, not as a command.
7Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am; but each man has his own charisma(grace-gift) from God — one in this way, another in that.
8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am;
9but if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
10But to the married I give instructions — not I, but the Lord — that a wife should not separate from her husband
11(but if she does separate, let her remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and that a husband should not divorce his wife.
12But to the rest I say, not the Lord: if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to live with him, let him not divorce her;
13and if any woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, let her not send her husband away.
14For the unbelieving husband is made hagio(holy) through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made hagio(holy) through her husband; otherwise your children would be akathartos(unclean), but now they are hagio(holy).
15Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not bound in such cases; but God has called us to eirene(peace).
16For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?
17Only as the Lord has assigned to each, as God has called each — in this way let him walk; and this is what I instruct in all the ekklesiai(called-out communities).
18Was anyone called already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove it; has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is everything.
20Let each man remain in that calling in which he was called.
21Were you called as a slave? Do not let it worry you; but if you are also able to become free, make use of it rather.
22For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise the one who was called as free is Messiah(Christ)'s slave.
23You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.
24Brothers, let each one remain with God in that condition in which he was called.
25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.
26I think then that this is good in view of the present distress — that 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 released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
28But if you should marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin should marry, she has not sinned; yet such will have trouble in the sarx(flesh), and I am trying to spare you.
29But this I say, brothers, the kairos(appointed-time) has been shortened; from now on let even those who have wives live as though they had none,
30and those who weep as though they did not weep, and those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, and those who buy as though they did not possess,
31and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away.
32But I want you to be free from concern; the unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
33but the married man is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,
34and his interests are divided; and the unmarried woman and the virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be hagio(holy) both in body and in pneuma(spirit); but the married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
35Now I say this for your own benefit, not to place a restraint upon you, but for the sake of propriety and undistracted devotion to the Lord.
36But if any man thinks he is behaving dishonorably toward his virgin, if she is past her prime and it must be so, let him do what he wishes — he does not sin; let them marry.
37But the man who stands firm in his kardia(heart, soul-domain), having no compulsion but having exousia(authority) over his own thelema(will), and has decided this in his own kardia(heart, soul-domain) — to keep his own virgin — he will do well.
38So then both the one who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and the one who does not give her in marriage will do better.
39A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
40But she is happier if she remains as she is, in my opinion; and I think that I also have the pneuma(spirit) of God.