1 Corinthians 7:1-9

1Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is 1good for a man not to touch a woman. 2But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. 3The husband must 2fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 53Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and 4come together again so that 5Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6But this I say by way of concession, 6not of command. 77Yet I wish that all men were 8even as I myself am. However, 9each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.

8But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is 10good for them if they remain 11even as I. 9But if they do not have self-control, 12let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.