28 However, if you do get married, 7:28 1Tm 5:14 you have not sinned, and if a virgin 7:28 Or betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, 7:28 Lit in the flesh and I am trying to spare you.
36 If any man thinks he is acting improperly toward the virgin he is engaged to, if she is getting beyond the usual age for marriage, and he feels he should marry — he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married. 38 So, then, he who marries his fiancée does well, but he who does not marry will do better. 7:36–38 Or 36If any man thinks he is acting improperly toward his virgin daughter, if she is getting beyond the usual age for marriage, and he feels she should marry — he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; she can get married. 37But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep his own virgin daughter will do well. 38So then he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, but he who does not give his own virgin daughter in marriage will do better.