(29)Now this I say, brethren, that the time is short. The conclusion is, that even they who have wives, should be as though they had not; (30)and they who weep as though they wept not; and they who rejoice as though they rejoiced not; and they that purchase as though they possessed not; (31)and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. (32)But I would have you to be free from anxiety. He who is unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord: (33)but he who is married is anxious about the things of the world, how he shall please his wife. (34)A wife and a virgin hath different pursuits: the unmarried woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about the things of the world, how she shall please her husband. (35)Now I say this for your own advantage, and not that I should lay a snare in your way, but as what is seemly, and that you may wait on the Lord without distraction. (36)But if a person supposes it would be unseemly for a virgin of his if she should pass the flower of her age _in celibacy_, and that duty directs it should be so, let him do as he is inclined, he doth not sin: let such marry. (37)But he that is stedfast in his heart, not having any necessity, but retaineth power over his own inclination, and hath determined this in his heart that he will preserve his own virgin state, doeth well. (38)Wherefore though he who giveth in marriage doeth well, yet he who avoids a matrimonial connection, doeth better. (39)The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is free to be married to whomsoever she will, but only in the Lord. (40)But she is more blessed if she abide as she is, in my opinion: and I think I have the spirit of God. CHAP. VIII. NOW concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. (2)But if any man conceit that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. (3)But if any man love God, the same is known of him.