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1 Corinthians - ch 7 v 1 - 20
- But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;
- but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
- Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.
- The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.
- Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
- But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.
- Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.
- But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.
- But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
- But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;
- (but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife.
- But as to the rest, I say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her.
- And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.
- For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
- But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
- For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife?
- However, as the Lord has divided to each, as God has called each, so let him walk; and thus I ordain in all the assemblies.
- Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
- Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping God's commandments.
- Let each abide in that calling in which he has been called.
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