27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

28 But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people as yourselves will have [105]trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

29 But this I say, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;