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Do not withhold yourselves from each other unless you agree to do so just for a set time, in order to devote yourselves to prayer.[a] Then you should come together again so that Satan does not tempt you through your lack of self-control. But I say this as a concession, not as a command. I would like everyone to be unmarried,[b] like I am. However, each person has a special gift from God, one this and another that.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:5 Other mss. read to fasting and prayer
  2. 1 Corinthians 7:7 The Gk. lacks unmarried