1 Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

2 but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

3 Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

4 but her husband is; and in the same way the husband is not master of his own person, but his wife is.

5 Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.