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Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is ^(a)good for a man not to touch a woman.

But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

The husband must ^[a]fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

The wife does not have authority 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.

^(b)Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and ^[b]come together again so that ^(c)Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

But this I say by way of concession, ^(d)not of command.

^[c]Yet I wish that all men were ^(e)even as I myself am. However, ^(f)each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is ^(g)good for them if they remain ^(h)even as I.

But if they do not have self-control, ⁽ⁱ⁾let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.