Sinai1 Corinthians 7:5
World English Bible
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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1 Corinthians 7:5 in other translations
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
1 Corinthians 7:5 in context
- 3Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
- 4The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.
- 5Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
- 6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
- 7Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.