1 Corinthians 7:14-40 For the unbelieving husband is hallowed by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is hallowed by the brother, else, consequently, your children are unclean. Yet now they are holy."

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is hallowed by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is hallowed by the brother, else, consequently, your children are unclean. Yet now they are holy." ¹⁵ Yet if the unbeliever is separating, let him separate. A brother or a sister is not enslaved in such a case. Now God has called us in peace." ¹⁶ For of what are you aware, O wife - will you be saving your husband - or of what are you aware, O husband - will you be saving your wife -" ¹⁷ except as the Lord parts it to each? Each as God has called him, thus let him be walking. And thus am I prescribing in all the ecclesias." ¹⁸ Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not be de-circumcised. Is anyone called in uncircumcision? Let him not circumcise. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the precepts of God." ²⁰ Each one in the calling in which he was called, in this let him be remaining." ²¹ Were you called a slave? Let it not be causing you care. But if you are able to become free also, use it rather." ²² For, in the Lord, he who is being called a slave, is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, he who is being called, being free, is a slave of Christ." ²³ With a price are you bought. Do not become the slaves of men. ²⁴ Each one, in what he was called, brethren, in this let him remain with God." ²⁵ Now concerning the celibates or virgins, I have no injunction of the Lord. Yet an opinion am I giving, as one who has enjoyed mercy by the Lord to be faithful." ²⁶ I am inferring, then, this ideal to be inherent, because of the present necessity, for it is ideal for humanity to be thus." ²⁷ You are bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. You have been loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. ²⁸ Yet if you ever should be marrying, also, you did not sin. And if the virgin should be marrying, she did not sin. Yet affliction in the flesh will such be having. Yet I am sparing you." ²⁹ Now this I am averring, brethren, the era is limited; that, furthermore, those also having wives may be as not having them, ³⁰ and those lamenting as not lamenting, and those rejoicing as not rejoicing, and those buying as not retaining, ³¹ and those using this world as not using it up. For the fashion of this world is passing by. ³² Now I want you to be without worry. The unmarried one is solicitous about the things of the Lord, how he should be pleasing the Lord." ³³ Yet he who marries is solicitous about the things of the world, how he should be pleasing his wife, ³⁴ and is parted. The unmarried woman as well as the virgin: the unmarried one is solicitous about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body as well as in spirit, yet she who marries is solicitous about the things of the world, how she should be pleasing her husband." ³⁵ Now this I am saying for your own expedience, not that I should be casting a noose over you, but for that which is respectable and assiduous - to be undistractedly for the Lord." ³⁶ Now if anyone is inferring it to be indecent for his virgin, if she should be over her meridian, and thus it ought to occur, what he will, let him do. He is not sinning. Let them marry." ³⁷ Yet he who stands settled in his heart, having no necessity, yet has authority as to his own will, and has decided this in his own heart (to be keeping his virgin) ideally will be doing." ³⁸ So that he also who is taking his virgin in marriage, ideally will be doing, yet he who is not taking out in marriage will be doing better." ³⁹ A wife is bound by law for whatever time her husband is living. Yet if the husband should be reposing, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord." ⁴⁰ Yet happier is she if ever she should be remaining thus, according to my opinion. Now I presume that I also have God's spirit."