5. Defraud ye not one the other, except with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you for your incontinence.
6. But I speak this by permission, and not as a commandment.
7. For I would that all men were as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
8. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain even as I.
9. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.