1 Corinthians 7:34
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, while the married woman is drawn to the cares of family life and the things of the world. The unmarried can keep mind and heart free and devote all interests and all the powers given them to the Lord's cause in saving precious souls, and this undivided devotion gives greater influence in missionary work. Being swallowed up with thoughts of marriage divides care and unfits a person for the work God gives to do.
In the last days many youth feel a strong desire to marry, and many of these marriages are stirred up by the enemy as a snare with bewitching power that makes marriage look like perfect happiness. Those who marry while unprepared for the duties of husband and family bring unhappiness and desperation, become small in spiritual life, and hold each other back instead of helping each other. A stubborn will that will not yield to parents' objections or to reason and that will not bring its own will under God's will proves the heart is not ruled by God, and those in this state must give mind and affections fully to God.
Marriage divides care toward pleasing earthly ties and weakens missionary influence and work. Bringing children into the world increases cares and burdens still more, lessening usefulness, exhausting strength, and taking time from improving powers for God's cause. A married worker does only one half and with a child only one third of what could have been done unmarried.
For missionary work, especially in distant fields, it is better not to marry, since young women missionaries who marry soon have children to care for and are taken out of the missionary field. If married, a couple does better to thoughtfully consider the situation and withhold from adding children so God may have their undivided service and all their powers kept free for His cause. A married woman who has no children to hinder her can remain free for work for the Master, accompanying her husband in his travels and being a help to him, and when left at home working for the Lord as though she were unmarried. Once children are born, the greatest care of the parents must and ought to be the family.