My
highlighted verses: 1 Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof
ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and
let every woman have her own husband.
3
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also
the wife unto the husband.
4
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise
also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that
ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again,
that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6
But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
7
For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his
proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they
abide even as I.
9
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than
to burn.
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. Pretty self explanatory! I'd say.
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