![]() But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God one has this gift, another has that. ![]() I say this as a concession, not as a command. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. ![]() Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ![]() For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married. If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find? The righteous lead blameless lives blessed are their children after them. ![]()
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