Defraud not one another, [a]except it be with consent for a time, that ye may [b]give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and again come together, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

[c]But I speak this by permission, not by commandment.

For I [d]would that all men were even as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:5 He addeth an exception: unless the one abstain from the other by mutual consent, that they may the better give themselves to prayer, wherein notwithstanding, he warneth them to consider what is expedient, lest by this long breaking off as it were from marriage, they bestirred up to incontinency.
  2. 1 Corinthians 7:5 Do nothing else.
  3. 1 Corinthians 7:6 Fifthly, he teacheth that marriage is not simply necessary for all men, but for them which have not the gift of continency, and this gift is by a peculiar grace of God.
  4. 1 Corinthians 7:7 I wish.

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