28 Peter began to say to Him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed You."
29 Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or farms, for My sake and for the gospel's sake,
30 but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life
They will be receiving in the present age, now, not just hundred times as much houses and brother and sisters and mothers and children and farms, but with all of that ... persecutions. Then, in the age to come, they will receive eternal life.
Imagine that they, in the present age, received hundreds times more houses and brothers and sisters (Luke mentioned having left "wives") and children, etc., Jesus said His words are spirit and truth. So they received all that, but it was a spiritual family of brothers and wives and sisters and children, not literally; otherwise, they would have all had to have gotten married hundreds of times over! Which would have been adultery!
Acts 2
40 And with many other words he solemnly testified and kept on exhorting them, saying, "Be saved from this perverse generation!"
41 So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.
That's many hundreds times more than what they left, right? They received all that right along with persecutions....
I hardly think that Paul and the other Apostles were having sex with all these spiritual "wives" that the Lord gave to them to be in the spiritual family of God, when it was they who were preaching against adultery and perverseness, and about being saved from a perverse generation.
Paul said he was content to remain unmarried. Although, there was a time when he spoke about wanting a wife of his own (I think), that was not his mission in life.
Besides, how was he going to take care of wife and children with all the care of the churches and all of his persecutions? I don't think Paul was so callous as to not realize that he would be bringing all his persecutions into a marriage and family. I don't think Paul was earthly minded:
One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, and his interests are divided.
Paul's interests were not divided.