Please read the passage before reading the commentary
In this letter to the Corinthians, apparently Paul is answering some questions sent him by the Corinthians. This question concerns unmarried people, female and male. Since we are living in the last age of the world and do not know when it will end, being unmarried can have same advantages. Spouses experience more and are in deeper grief, especially over unexpected deaths of spouse or family. It is easier for an unmarried person to pack up and leave in an emergency situation. Being single allows for great freedom to move about; to be married means to allow oneself to be housed.
Paul gives his opinion on the matter. He says that it is better to remain as one is. Married people should not try to get unmarried and unmarried people should not worry about not being married. He also says that it is okay for a person to marry.
It is not that Paul has a shallow view of marriage. He would spare people from deep grief, but it is also good to love rather than not to love. To love is to risk grief, but to love is also to risk great happiness. In today’s world, it takes great love and determination to bring children into the world when we face constant and serious wars, frequent natural and humanly caused catastrophes, but parents still bring children not the world which may not last long enough for them to grow to adulthood.
Since the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, the whole attitude of the world has changed. Getting married or remaining unmarried has a deeper meaning and purpose now. The world can no longer be “eat, sleep and have a good time.” Time now belongs to God, not to us. We need detachment so that things do not own us, but that we can use things without owning them. We still ponder the Corinthians question about marriage and the best reply may be to marry or not marry according to the calling God gives each.