1 Corinthians 6:15–7:9

15 Know ye not that eyour bodies are bthe members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? fGod forbid. 16 What? know ye not that he which is gjoined to an harlot is one body? for htwo, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But ihe that is gjoined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18 kFlee lfornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth magainst his own body. 19 What? know ye not that nyour body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and boye are not your own? 20 For pye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, bwhich are God’s.

7 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: aIt is good for a man not to btouch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid cfornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 dLet the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife ehath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband ehath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 fDefraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to gfasting and prayer; and come together again, that hSatan itempt you not for your jincontinency. 6 But I speak this by permission, and knot of commandment. 7 For lI would that all men were meven as I myself. But nevery man hath his proper gift of God, oone after this manner, and another after that.

8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, aIt is good for them if they abide meven as I. 9 But pif they cannot qcontain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.