1 Corinthians 7:1–9

¹And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman, ²and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband; ³to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; ⁴the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife. ⁵Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence; ⁶and this I say by way of concurrence—not of command, ⁷for I wish all men to be even as I myself am; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus. ⁸And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am; ⁹and if they have not continence—let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.