1 Corinthians 7:8

"I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I."
1 Corinthians 7:8 (KJV)

Context from 1 Corinthians 7

6

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

7

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

8

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

9

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

10

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: