Defraud not one another, [a]except it be with consent for a time, that ye may [b]give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and again come together, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:5 He addeth an exception: unless the one abstain from the other by mutual consent, that they may the better give themselves to prayer, wherein notwithstanding, he warneth them to consider what is expedient, lest by this long breaking off as it were from marriage, they bestirred up to incontinency.
  2. 1 Corinthians 7:5 Do nothing else.

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