1818 Feb 2

Not Paul

III. Doctrine

Ch. Motives to Doctrine

Asceticism II. Bed

I. Ordinary

1. Celibacy

But let us see the whole passage.

I. Cor. vii. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 32. But I would

have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong

to the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

33. But he that is married careth for the things that are of this world, how he may

please his wife.

34. There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth

for y e things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and

spirit: but she that is married careth for y e things of the

world, how she may please her husband.

35. And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but

for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

36. But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely towards his virgin, if

she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he

sinneth not: let them marry.

37. Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but

hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his

virgin, doeth well.

38. So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in

marriage doeth better.