1 Corinthians 7:1-9 ▼

1 Now concerning the things of which you? wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2 But because of the sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

3 Let the husband render the duty to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband; and likewise also, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

5 Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement for a time, so that you? might be at leisure for prayer, and may be together the same again, so that Satan may not tempt you? through your? lack of self-control.

6 Now I say this by way of concession, not by way of command.

7 Yet I wish all men to be even like myself. But each has his own gift from God; indeed the one thus, but the one thus.

8 Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they should remain as even I am.

9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.