1 Corinthians 7:2-3
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2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 (A)The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
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1 Corinthians 7:5
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5 (A)Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, (B)so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
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3 For this is the will of God, (A)your sanctification:[a] (B)that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own (C)body[b] in holiness and (D)honor, 5 not in (E)the passion of lust (F)like the Gentiles (G)who do not know God;
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- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or your holiness
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or how to take a wife for himself; Greek how to possess his own vessel
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