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Principles of Marriage

Now in response to the matters you wrote[a] about: ‘It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.’[b] But because sexual immorality is so common,[c](A) each man should have sexual relations with his own wife,(B) and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband. A husband should fulfil his marital duty(C) to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:1 Other mss add to me
  2. 7:1 Or ‘It is good for a man not to use a woman for sex’; lit ‘It is good for a man not to touch a woman.’
  3. 7:2 Lit because of immoralities