A moment in scripture
1 Corinthians 7:5
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
The surrounding passage
- 1 Corinthians 7:3
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:4
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:6
But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
- 1 Corinthians 7:7
For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.