1 Corinthians 7

¹Nowe concerning the thinges whereof ye wrote vnto mee, It were good for a man not to touche a woman.

²Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

³Let the husband giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.

⁴The wife hath not the power of her owne bodie, but ye husband: and likewise also the husband hath not ye power of his own body, but the wife.

⁵Defraude not one another, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may giue your selues to fasting and praier, and againe come together that Satan tempt you not for your incontinecie.

⁶But I speake this by permission, not by commandement.

⁷For I woulde that all men were euen as I my selfe am: but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, and another after that.

⁸Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.

⁹But if they cannot abstaine, let them marrie: for it is better to marrie then to burne.

¹⁰And vnto ye maried I comand, not I, but ye Lord, Let not ye wife depart from her husband.

¹¹But and if shee depart, let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled vnto her husband, and let not the husband put away his wife.

¹²But to ye remnant I speake, and not ye Lord, If any brother haue a wife, ye beleeueth not, if she be content to dwell with him, let him not forsake her.