1 Corinthians 7
Reading 1 Corinthians chapter 7 in the Webster's Bible, public-domain text from 1833.
Verses 1–10
1 Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, [to avoid] lewdness, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.
4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you for your incontinence.
6 But I speak this by permission, [and] not as a commandment.
7 For I would that all men were as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.
9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
10 And to the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:
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