1. Now, to deal with the matters you wrote about.A man does well not to marry.
2. But because there is so much immorality, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.
3. A man should fulfil his duty as a husband, and a woman should fulfil her duty as a wife, and each should satisfy the other's needs.
4. A wife is not the master of her own body, but her husband is; in the same way a husband is not the master of his own body, but his wife is.
5. Do not deny yourselves to each other, unless you first agree to do so for a while in order to spend your time in prayer; but then resume normal marital relations. In this way you will be kept from giving in to Satan's temptation because of your lack of self-control.
6. I tell you this not as an order, but simply as a concession.
7. Actually I would prefer that all of you were as I am; but each one has a special gift from God, one person this gift, another one that gift.