7:1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

7:3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

7:4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

7:6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

7:7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

7:9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

7:25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

7:26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

7:32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

7:33But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

7:39The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

7:40But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.