Paul said yes, for those able to live it. The unmarried, he wrote, can give “undivided devotion to the Lord” (1 Corinthians 7:35), and the one who refrains from marriage “will do even better” (7:38). He also said that marriage is no sin and that “each has his own gift from God” (7:7). Paul wrote as a single man who wished that all were as he was, and still he would not make his own life the rule for everyone.…

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