Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 7:5 in context
1 Corinthians 7:2–8
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But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
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The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
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Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
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Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
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But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
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