Darby Translation 1890

1 Corinthians 7:4-10 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.

7. 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.

8. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.

9. But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

10. But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;