9 ^qBut if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

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.

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.

38 So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.