Because of the impending crisis I think it best for you to remain as you are.

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

To the unmarried and widows I say that it is best for them to remain as I am.

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than – no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!