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29 This saye I brethren, the tyme is shorte. It remayneth, that they whych haue wyues, be as though they had none:
30 and they that wepe, be as though they wept not: and they that reioyce, be as though they reioyced not: & they that bye, be as though they possessed not:
31 and they that vse this worlde, be as though they vsed it not. For the fassyon of thys worlde goeth awaye.
32 I wolde haue you without care. He that is vnmaryed, careth for the thynges that belong to the Lord, howe he maye please the Lord.
33 But he the hath maryed a wyfe careth for the thinges that are of the worlde, howe he maye please his wyfe.
34 There is difference betwene a virgin & a wife. The syngle woman careth for the thinges that are of the Lorde, that she maye be holy both in bodye & also in sprete. Agayne: she that is maryed, careth for the thinges that pertayne to the worlde, how she maye please her husbande.
35 This speake I for youre profet, not to tangle you in a snare: but that ye maye folowe it which is honest & comly, & that ye maye cleaue vnto the Lorde without separacion.
36 If eny man thynke that it is vncomly for his virgin, yf she passe the tyme of maryage, and yf so nede require, let him do what he lysteth, he synneth not: let them be coupled in mariage.
37 Neuerthelesse, he that purposeth surely in his herte, hauynge no nede: but hath power ouer his awne will: & hath so decreed in his hert, that he will kepe his virgin, doth well. So then, he that ioyneth his virgin in mariage doth well.
38 But he that ioyneth not his virgin in mariage, doth better.
39 The wyfe is bounde to the mariage, as longe as her husband lyueth. If her husband dye, she is at libertie to mary with whom she will, onely in the Lorde.
40 But she is happier, yf she so abyde, after my iudgement. And I thinke verely, that I haue the sprete of God.