8 But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.

9 If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

10 But to those already married my instructions are –yet not mine, but the Lord's– that a wife is not to leave her husband;

11 or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send away his wife.