MEN, FLEE FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY. ALL other SINS a man commits are outside his body, but HE who SINS sexually SINS against his own body. Do you know that your body is a TEMPLE of the HOLY SPIRIT, who is in you, whom you have RECIEVED from GOD? YOU are not your own; you were BOUGHT at a PRICE. THEREFORE HONOR GOD WITH YOUR BODY.
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is GOOD for a man not to have SEXUAL RELATION with a woman. But since there is so much IMMORALITY, each man should have his own WIFE, and each woman her own HUSBAND. The HUSBAND should fulfill his MARITAL DUTY to his WIFE, and likewise the WIFE to her HUSBAND.
The WIFE'S body does not belong to her alone but also to her HUSBAND. In the same way, the HUSBAND'S body does not belong to him alone but also to his WIFE. Do not DEPRIVE each other except by MUTUAL CONSENT and for time, so that you may DEVOTE yourselves to PRAYER. Then come together again so that SATAN will not TEMPT you BECAUSE of your lack of (INNER) SELF-CONTROL. I say this as a CONCESSION, not as a COMMAND. I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own GIFT from GOD; one has this GIFT, another has that.
Now to the UNMARRIED and the WIDOWS I say: It is GOOD for them to stay UNMARRIED, as I am. But if they CANNOT CONTROL themselves, they should MARRY, for it is BETTER to MARRY than to burn with PASSION.
To the MARRIED I give this COMMAND (not I, but the Lord): A WIFE must not SEPERATE from her HUSBAND. But if she does, she must REMAIN UNMARRIED or else be RECONCILED to her HUSBAND. And a HUSBAND must not DIVORCE his WIFE.
To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any BROTHER has a WIFE who is not a BELIEVER and she is willing to LIVE with him, he must not DIVORCE her. And if a woman has a HUSBAND who is not a BELEIVER and he is willing to LIVE with her, she must not DIVORCE him. For the UNBELIEVING HUSBAND has been SANCTIFIED through his WIFE, and the UNBELIEVING WIFE has been SANCTIFIED through her BELIEVING HUSBAND. Otherwise your CHILDREN would be UNCLEAN, but as it is, they are HOLY.
But if the UNBELIEVER leaves, let him do so. A BELIEVING man or woman is not BOUND in such CIRCUMSTANCES; GOD has CALLED us to LIVE in PEACE. How do you know, WIFE, weather you will save your HUSBAND? Or, how do you know, HUSBAND, weather you will save your WIFE?
NEVERTHELESS, each one should RETAIN the PLACE in LIFE that the Lord ASSIGNED to him and to which GOD has CALLED him. This is the RULE I lay down in all the CHURCHES.
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