5. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
6. But this I say by way of permission, not of commandment.
7. Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8. But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
9. But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.