1. Now concerning the things about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”
2. But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.
3. The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
4. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but his wife does.
5. Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then you should be together again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control.
6. But I say this as a concession, not as a command.
7. I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way.
8. Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.
9. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.
10. To the married I command—not I, but the Lord—a wife must not separate from her husband.