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I am giving you this as a suggestion, not as a command. Actually, I wish everyone were like me; but each has his own gift from God, one this, another that.

Now to the single people and the widows I say that it is fine if they remain unmarried like me;

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I say this as a concession, not as a command.(A) I wish that all of you were as I am.(B) But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.(C)

Now to the unmarried[a] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:8 Or widowers