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;
11. (but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife.
12. 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.