² But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

²⁸ In the same way ^(A)husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

³³ However, ^(A)let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she ^(B)respects her husband.

⁹ But if they cannot exercise self-control, ^(A)they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

^18 (A)Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin^[a] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person ^(B)sins against his own body.

^3 (A)who forbid marriage and ^(B)require abstinence from foods ^(C)that God created ^(D)to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

^14 (A)But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord ^(B)was witness between you and the wife of your youth, ^(C)to whom ^(D)you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.