1 Corinthians 7:2-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

³ Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

⁴ The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

⁵ Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

⁶ But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.