Defraud ye not one the other, except it be withconsent for a time, that ye may giveyourselves to fasting and prayer; and cometogetheragain, thatSatantempt you not for yourincontinency.
For the unbelievinghusband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelievingwife is sanctified by the husband: elsewereyourchildrenunclean; but now are theyholy.
There is differencealsobetween a wife and a virgin. The unmarriedwomancareth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holyboth in body and in spirit: but she that is marriedcareth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snareupon you, but for thatwhich is comely, and that ye may attendupon the Lordwithoutdistraction.
But if any man thinkthat he behavethhimselfuncomelytoward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let themmarry.
Nevertheless he thatstandethstedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hathpowerover his own will, and hath so decreed in his heartthat he willkeep his virgin, doethwell.
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husbandliveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.