1 Corinthians 7

¹But concerning the things of which ye have written [to me]: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman;

²but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband.

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

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

⁵Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

⁶But this I say, as consenting [to], not as commanding [it].

⁷Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

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

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

¹⁰But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;

¹¹(but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife.

¹²But as to the rest, I say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her.