<p>7:37 <em>But he that stands steadfast in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desires under control, and has determined this in his heart, to remain betrothed; he shall do well- </em>&quot;To remain betrothed&quot; is literally as in AV &quot;to keep his virgin&quot;. &quot;Keep&quot; can mean to financially keep. Perhaps the brother in view considered that despite having used the sister as a church prostitute repeatedly over a period of time, he would not marry her but would financially support her in her old age. The idea of remaining perpetually betrothed doesn't really make sense nor does it seem appropriate. And if we read this as referring to the father of an unmarried young virgin refusing to give her in marriage, then it would not be appropriate to write that his decision was because of his personal control of his sexual desires. The idea that the &quot;virgin&quot; refers to a believing woman who had formerly been used as a church prostitute seems to me the only approach which is workable in all the references to &quot;virgin&quot; here in this passage.</p>