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1 Corinthians - ch 7 v 1 - 20
- And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,
- and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
- to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;
- the 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.
- Defraud 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;
- and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,
- for 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.
- And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';
- and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;
- and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:
- but 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.
- And 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;
- and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;
- for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.
- And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself -- let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such `cases', and in peace hath God called us;
- for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?
- if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:
- being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;
- the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.
- Each in the calling in which he was called -- in this let him remain;
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