1 Corinthians 7:2-15
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2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
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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.
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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.
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6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
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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.
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8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
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9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
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10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
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11 But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
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12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
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13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
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14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
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15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.