forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place.

Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband to-night, and should also bear sons;

would ye therefore tarry till they were grown? would ye therefore stay from having husbands? nay, my daughters, for it grieveth me much for your sakes, for the hand of Jehovah is gone forth against me.

Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.

The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;