1 And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good [it is] for a man not to touch a woman,2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;3 to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;4 the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.5 Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;