As “holier”? Quote even a single verse that says this.
Or as a different mode of holiness with its own privileges and responsibilities?
A valid case can be made for a particular person to embrace the single role when it is obvious that the Lord is pressing this upon the person. It is a cop out otherwise.
“As “holier”? Quote even a single verse that says this.”
“1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
1 Corinthians 7:1-2
“32 But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
33 But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.”
1 Corinthians 7:32-33
Also, this chapter pretty much negates your claims that I should get married even if I don’t feel it necessary:
“27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.”
1 Cor 7:27-31
According to Paul’s wisdom, it seems you are the one thinking in a wordly manner, telling me that I need marry, when marriage is a thing of the flesh that is already passing away now that Christ has come.