Concession or Command?

1 Corinthians 7:6-7 "I say this as a concession, not as a command. But I wish everyone were single, just as I am. Yet each person has a special gift from God, of one kind or another."

      Precious Lord, I must admit that I am puzzled by Paul's first statement.  Before this I have learned that:
I am not my own, but have been bought with the price of Your precious blood.
I am never to commit adultery.
I am to be submissive to my husband.
I am to love others as I love myself.
I have, at the point of marriage, given authority of my body over to my husband.
My marriage is a picture of You and Your bride, the church.
We are to be fruitful and multiply.
Here Paul seems to be negating the importance of marriage; that it is only a concession because humans cannot control their sexual urges.  For him to say that faithfulness and unselfishness of one's own body in a marriage is only a concession not a command seems to be contradictory with Your other commands for married folks.
      Lord, celibacy and singleness are gifts from You...if I am correct in understanding what I am reading.  Paul evidently had no family.  Was he an only child of since deceased parents?  Before his conversion, he was single and followed hard after Judaism,  After his conversion on the road to Damascus, he followed You with a singleness of passion to spread the Gospel to the world.  Did the gift you gave include a physical gift so he would have no desire for a woman?  Or was it a very strong sense of purpose that overshadowed all normal physical male urges that gave him the power to say,  "No!" to what urges he might have?
      I understand that Paul is wishing that we all were like him in being single and single-minded so we would be able to follow hard after You and travel the world spreading the Gospel without encumbrances of spouses and family that have to be considered and can distract.  I do not believe he is speaking specifically that singles should never consider getting married and having a family.  If that were true Christianity might die out altogether.
      Lord, I want to correctly understand.  Please teach me the truth of these passages.