1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to prayer, and may be together again, that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
Cross References
Exodus 19:15He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Do not have sexual relations with a woman."
Joel 2:16Gather the people.Sanctify the assembly.Assemble the elders.Gather the children, and those who suck the breasts.Let the bridegroom go forth from his room,and the bride out of her chamber.
Zechariah 12:12The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
Matthew 17:21But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.]
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause I also, when I could not stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:2-10
Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except… Read the whole commentary →