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But of those things that ye have written to me, it is good to a man to touch not a woman [it is good to a man for to not touch a woman].

But for fornication each man have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.

The husband yield debt to the wife, and also the wife to the husband.

The woman hath not power of her body, but the husband; [also forsooth] and the husband hath not power of his body, but the woman [but the wife].

Do not ye defraud each to other [Do not defraud together], but peradventure of consent for a time, that ye give attention to prayer; and again turn again to the same thing, lest Satan tempt you for your uncontinence.

But I say this thing as giving leave, not by commandment.[a]

For I will, that all men be as myself. But each man hath his proper gift of God; one thus, and another thus.

But I say to them, that be not wedded, and to widows [and widows], it is good to them, if they dwell so as I.

And if they contain not themselves, be they wedded; for it is better to be wedded, than to be burnt.

10 But to them that be joined in matrimony, I command, not I, but the Lord, that the wife depart not from the husband;

11 and that if she departeth, that she dwell unwedded, or be reconciled to her husband; and the husband forsake not the wife.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:6 Forsooth I say this thing by indulgence, not after commandment.