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Celibacy, Self-Control, and Marriage

Now concerning the things you wrote: It is good for a man not to touch[a] a woman. But because of sexual sins, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. The husband is to fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:1 The Greek word translated touch was a euphemism for sexual relations.