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

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

³³ Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect^[a] her husband.

⁹ But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.^(A)

¹⁸ Shun sexual immorality!^[a] Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person^[b] sins against the body itself.^(A)

³ They forbid marriage and abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.^(A)

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