1. But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;
2. but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
3. Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.
4. The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.
5. Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
6. But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.
7. Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.
8. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.
9. But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.
10. But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;
11. (but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife.
12. But as to the rest, I say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her.
13. And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.
14. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.