1 Corinthians 7:2-16

2But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. 3The husband must 1fulfill 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. 52Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and 3come together again so that 4Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6But this I say by way of concession, 5not of command. 76Yet I wish that all men were 7even as I myself am. However, 8each 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 9good for them if they remain 10even as I. 9But if they do not have self-control, 11let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

10But to the married I give instructions, 12not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not 13leave her husband 11(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not 14divorce his wife.

12But to the rest 15I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not 16divorce her. 13And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, she must not 17send her husband away. 14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through 18her believing husband; for otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are 19holy. 15Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave; the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called 20us 2122to peace. 16For how do you know, O wife, whether you will 23save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?