9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, ethey should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
Principles for Marriage
1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: t“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
14 So I would have uyounger widows marry, bear children, vmanage their households, and wgive the adversary no occasion for slander.
Instructions for the Church
1 bDo not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, cyounger men as brothers,
2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Principles for Marriage
1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: t“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman1 marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
Principles for Marriage
1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: t“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
36 If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed,1 if his2 passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.
Principles for Marriage
1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: t“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
39 iA wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only jin the Lord.
Principles for Marriage
1 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: t“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
11 But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when rtheir passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry
