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.