1 I asked him again, saying, “Sir, since you are being patient with me once again, explain this to me as well.” “Go ahead,” he said. “If a wife,” I said, “or perhaps a husband falls asleep, and the other remarries, does the one who remarries sin?” 2 “They do not sin,” he said, “but if they stay single, they gain far greater honor for themselves and with great glory before the Lord;⁠a yet even if they do marry, they do not sin. 3 So keep purity and holiness, and you will live for God. Keep all the things I am telling you now and will tell you later, from now on, from the day you were entrusted to me, and I will live in your house. 4 But for your former transgressions, there will be forgiveness if you keep my commandments. Indeed, everyone will have forgiveness if they keep these commandments of mine and live in purity.”