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Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

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Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

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But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

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But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

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But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

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(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband) and that the husband leave not his wife.

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But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

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And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

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For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean but now are they holy.

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Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us in peace.

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For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O husband, whether thou shalt save thy wife?