8 Yes I say to the unmarried and the widows: it is good for them if they should remain even as I;As a practicing Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus would almost certainly have been married, so at this point he is presumably a widower. 9 but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry; since it is better to marry than to burn.This is usually understood as ‘burn with passion’, but if practicing fornicators do not enter the Kingdom, the more literal meaning may obtain.
Mixed marriages
10 Now to the married I command (not I but the Lord): a wife is not to be separated from her husband 11 (but if she does separate herself,Note that it is the woman taking the initiative, for whatever reason. let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband is not to divorce his wife.
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