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New International Version NIV
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
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The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.
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The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.
5 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.
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Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a 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 self-control.
6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
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I say this as a concession, not as a command.
7 Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
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I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.
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