Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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Concerning Marriage And Singleness: Live According To Your Gift From God

It is good^[a] for a man not to touch^[b] a woman. ² But because of sexual-immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband give-back to his wife her due^[c], and likewise also the wife to her husband. ⁴ The wife does not have-authority^[d] over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise also the husband does not have-authority over his own body, but the wife does. ⁵ Do not be depriving one another— except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote-yourselves to prayer and [then] be together again— in order that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack-of-self-control. ⁶ But I am saying this by way of concession, not by way of command. ⁷ And I wish that all people were as^[e] indeed myself! But each has his own gift from God— one in this manner and another in this manner.