1 Corinthians 7:2–13

²But because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

³The husband must ¹fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

⁴The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

^5aStop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and ¹come together again so that ^bSatan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

⁶But this I say as a concession, ^anot as a command.

⁷¹Yet I wish that all men were ^aeven as I myself am. However, ^beach man has his own gift from God, one this way, and another that.

⁸But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is ^agood for them if they remain ^beven as I.

⁹But if they do not have self-control, ^alet them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

¹⁰But to the married I give instructions, ^anot I, but the Lord, that the wife should not ¹leave her husband

¹¹(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not ¹divorce his wife.

¹²But to the rest ^aI say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not ¹divorce her.

¹³And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband.