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Well, yes; but the temptation to immorality means that every man should maintain sexual relations with his own wife, and every woman with her own husband. The man should give his wife her marital rights, and the woman should do the same for her husband. The woman isn’t in charge of her own body; her husband is. In the same way, the man isn’t in charge of his own body; his wife is.

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But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife,(A) and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.

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But because of sexual immorality, let each man have[a] his own wife and let each woman have her own husband. The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but his wife does.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 7:2 I.e., in the sense of “have sexual relations with”