5. Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6. But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
7. Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
8. But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
9. But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
10. But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband