1 Corinthians 7:1-9 ▼

1 And concerning the things of which you wrote to me: [it is] good for a man not to touch a woman,

2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

3 to the wife let the husband render the due benevolence, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

4 the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband; and in like manner also, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

5 Do not defraud one another, except by consent for a time, that you may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that Satan may not tempt you because of your self-indulgence;

6 and this I say by way of concurrence—not of command,

7 for I wish all men to be even as I myself [am]; but each has his own gift of God, one indeed thus and one thus.

8 And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I [am];

9 and if they do not have continence—let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;