1 Corinthians 7:1-9

1 Corinthians 7:1-9

7:1Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. ² But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. ³ The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise the wife also to her husband.⁴ The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise the husband also does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. ⁵ Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.⁶ But this I say by way of concession, not of command. ⁷ Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each has his own gift from God, one in this way, and another in that.

⁸ But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. ⁹ But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.