1 Corinthians 7:35-37

Good News Translation

³⁵ I am saying this because I want to help you. I am not trying to put restrictions on you. Instead, I want you to do what is right and proper, and to give yourselves completely to the Lord's service without any reservation.

³⁶ In the case of an engaged couple who have decided not to marry: if the man feels that he is not acting properly toward the young woman and if his passions are too strong and he feels that they ought to marry, then they should get married, as he wants to.^[a] There is no sin in this. ³⁷ But if a man, without being forced to do so, has firmly made up his mind not to marry,^[b] and if he has his will under complete control and has already decided in his own mind what to do—then he does well not to marry the young woman.^[c]