1 Corinthians 7:28 CPDV

²⁶  Therefore, I consider this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be such as I am.

²⁷  Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be freed. Are you free of a wife? Do not seek a wife.

²⁸  But if you take a wife, you have not sinned. And if a virgin has married, she has not sinned. Even so, such as these will have the tribulation of the flesh. But I would spare you from this.

²⁹  And so, this is what I say, brothers: The time is short. What remains of it is such that: those who have wives should be as if they had none;

³⁰  and those who weep, as though they were not weeping; and those who rejoice, as if they were not rejoicing; and those who buy, as if they possessed nothing;