<p>7:36<em> But if anyone thinks that he behaves himself inappropriately toward his betrothed, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he will. He sins not. Let them marry- </em>I have suggested earlier that the &quot;virgin&quot; (NEV &quot;betrothed&quot;- which is an interpretation rather than translation refers to church prostitutes. But &quot;his&quot; virgin would suggest that the Corinthians were asking about male believers who regularly used the same woman, and she was now ageing. Paul considers that it would not be wrong for the brother to marry the woman in this case. The grammar here makes it very difficult to read the male in view as the father of the &quot;virgin&quot;; for he is to marry her.</p>