5. Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you for lack of self-control.
6. I speak this as a concession and not as a command.
7. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift from God, one after this manner and another after that.
8. I say to the unmarried and widows that it is good for them if they live even as I am.
9. But if they cannot restrain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
10. Now to the married I command, not I, but the Lord, do not let the wife depart from her husband.
11. But if she departs, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And do not let the husband divorce his wife.
12. To the rest I speak, not the Lord: If any brother has an unbelieving wife who consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
13. And if the woman has an unbelieving husband who consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.