I Corinthians 7:1-7:9

God, Love And Marriage - What's Sex Got To Do With It

  1. Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
  2. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
  3. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
  4. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
  5. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
  6. But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
  7. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
  8. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
  9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.