1. Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have relations with a woman.”
2. But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
3. A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.
4. A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does.
5. Do not deprive one another sexually — except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6. I say the following as a concession, not as a command.