4. The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.
5. Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6. But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
7. Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
8. But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
9. But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
10. But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband
11. (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
12. But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.