Tyndale(i)
25 As concernynge virgins I have no comaundment of the lorde: yet geve I counsell as one that hath obtayned mercye of the lorde to be faythfull.
26 I suppose that it is good for the present necessite. For it is good for a ma so to be.
27 Arte thou bounde vnto a wyfe? seke not to be lowsed. Arte thou lowsed from a wyfe? seke not a wyfe.
28 But and yf thou take a wyfe thou synnest not. Lykwyse if a virgin mary she synneth not. Neverthelesse soche shall have trouble in their flesshe: but I faver you.
29 This saye I brethre the tyme is shorte. It remayneth that they which have wives be as though they had none
30 and they that wepe be as though thy wept not: and they that reioyce be as though they reioysed not: and they that bye be as though they possessed not:
31 and they yt vse this worlde be as though they vsed it not. For the fassion of this worlde goeth awaye.
32 I wolde have you without care: the single man careth for the thinges of the lorde how he maye please the lorde.
33 But he that hath maried careth for the thinges of the worlde howe he maye please his wyfe.
34 There is differece bitwene a virgin and a wyfe. The single woman careth for the thinges of the lorde that she maye be pure both in body and also in sprete But she that is maryed careth for the thinges of the worlde how she maye please her husband.