1 Corinthians 7:1-9 ▼

1 Now concerning the things of which ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

2 but, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

3 Let the husband render to the wife her due; and, in like manner, the wife to the husband.

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

5 Defraud not one the other, except by consent for a Season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

6 But this I say by way of permission, not of command.

7 And I wish all men to be even as myself. Each one, however, has his own gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another, after that.

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

9 But, if they have not continency let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.