7Howbeit I wolde rather yt all me were as I am. Neuertheles euery one hath his proper gifte of God: one thus, another so.
8To them verely yt are vnmaried and to wedowes I saye: It is good for the that they abyde also as I do.
9But yf they cannot absteyne, let them mary. For it is better to mary, then to burne.
10But vnto them that are maried, commaunde not I, but the LORDE, that the wife separate not her selfe from the hussbande:
11but yf she separate her selfe, yt she remayne vnmaried, or be reconcyled to hir hussbande: and let not the hussbande put awaye his wife from him.
12As for the other, vnto the saye I, not ye LORDE: Yf eny brother haue an vnbeleuynge wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not put hir awaye.
13And yf a woman haue an vnbeleuynge hussbande, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not put him awaye.
14For the vnbeleuynge hussbande is sanctified by the wife, and the vnbeleuynge wife is sanctified by the hussbande: or els were youre children vncleane, but now are they holy.