1 Corinthians 7:5
Be not depriving one another—unless perhaps by consent for a season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and, again, may be together,—lest Satan be tempting you by reason of your want of self-control.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6This, however I am saying, by way of concession, not of injunction;
Cross References
Exodus 19:15And he said unto the people, Be ready, by the third day,—do not approach a woman.
Joel 2:16Gather the people, hallow a convocation, collect the elders, gather the children, and the sucklings of the breasts,—let the bridegroom, come forth, from his chamber, and the bride from her bower:
Zechariah 12:12So shall the land, wail, family by 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;
1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause, I also, no longer concealing my anxiety, sent, that I might get to know your faith, lest by any means he that tempteth, should have tempted you, and, in vain, should have been our toil.
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 →