1 Corinthians 7:1-7

 11/07 ~ From New Testament Letters

   🕊️ (In the Order Believed Written)

        By Necessity Paraphrased

1 - Now concerning the matters about which you wrote to me: “I (Paul) think it’s good for a man to remain single, rather than marry.” 2 But in the world there is the temptation to immorality. [Porneia - fornication (sexual relations between people who are not married to each other - The Amer. Heritage Dictionary). From pernaō - to sell off, properly, a selling off (surrendering) of sexual purity.] {Rightness, health.} So each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Likewise the wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. 5 Don’t deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer, but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you, and you fall due to a lack of self-control.

     6 Now this is only advice, but I will say this, 7 I wish all were as I myself am. But each has their own gift from God, one of one kind and another of another kind..

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Tomorrows verses - 1 Corinthians 7:8-23