5. Do not deprive one another—except by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6. But this I say as a concession, not as a command.
7. Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this way and another that.
8. But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them to remain as I am.
9. But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with desire.
10. But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—a wife is not to be separated from her husband