1 Corinthians 7

¹Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

³Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

⁴The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

⁵Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

⁶But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

⁷Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

⁸But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

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

¹⁰But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

¹¹(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

¹²But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.