1 Corinthians 7:5-7

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⁵ Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer,^[a] and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.^{(A) 6} This I say by way of concession, not of command.^{(B) 7} I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind.^(C)