3 Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.
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.
5 Defraud ye not one the other, except with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you for your incontinence.
6 But I speak this by permission, [and] not as a commandment.
7 For I would that all men were as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
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