1 Corinthians 7:2-16

2but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband.

3Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

4The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

5Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

6But this I say, as consenting [to], not as commanding [it].

7Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of 1God: one man thus, and another thus.

8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.

9But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

10But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;

11(but if also she shall have been separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband;) and let not husband leave wife.

12But as to the rest, I say, not the Lord, If any brother have an unbelieving wife, and she consent to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

13And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave [her] husband.

14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since [otherwise] indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

15But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such [cases], but 2God has called us in peace.

16For what knowest thou, O wife, if thou shalt save thy husband? or what knowest thou, O husband, if thou shalt save thy wife?