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Marriage, Abstinence, and Mutual Duty
1 Corinthians 7:1-7
1
Now to deal with the questions you wrote about: “Is it good for a man to keep away from women?”
2
Well, because of the danger of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
3
The husband should give his wife what she is entitled to in the marriage relationship, and the wife should do the same for her husband.
4
The wife is not in charge of her own body, but her husband is; likewise, the husband is not in charge of his own body, but his wife is.
5
Do not deprive each other, except for a limited time, by mutual agreement, and then only so as to have extra time for prayer; but afterwards, come together again. Otherwise, because of your lack of self-control, you may succumb to the Adversary’s temptation.
6
I am giving you this as a suggestion, not as a command.
7
Actually, I wish everyone were like me; but each has his own gift from God, one this, another that.
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