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1 Corinthians 7:1-6 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. NOW concerning the thing whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2. But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

3. Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

4. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

5. Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

6. But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.

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