5. Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you for lack of self-control.
6. I speak this as a concession and not as a command.
7. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man has his proper gift from God, one after this manner and another after that.
8. I say to the unmarried and widows that it is good for them if they live even as I am.
9. But if they cannot restrain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
10. Now to the married I command, not I, but the Lord, do not let the wife depart from her husband.