5. Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.
6. But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.
7. For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that.
8. But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I.
9. But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.