1 Corinthians 7

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

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

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

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

⁵Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

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

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

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

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

¹⁰and to the married I announce — not I, but the Lord — let not a wife separate from a husband:

¹¹but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

¹²And to the rest I speak — not the Lord — if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;