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Now concerning virgins, I have ^(C1)no command of the Lord, but I am offering direction as one who ^(F1)(C2)by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy.

I think, then, that this is good in view of the ^(F1)present ^(C1)distress, that ^(C2)it is good for a man ^(F2)to remain as he is.

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

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such people as yourselves will have ^(F1)trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

But this I say, brothers, ^(C1)the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

and 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;

and those who use the world, as though they did not ^(C1)make full use of it; for ^(C2)the present form of this world is passing away.