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But if you don't have enough self-control, then go ahead and get married. After all, it is better to marry than to burn with desire.[a]

10 (A) I instruct married couples to stay together, and this is exactly what the Lord himself taught. A wife who leaves her husband 11 should either stay single or go back to her husband. And a husband should not leave his wife.

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  1. 7.9 with desire: Or “in the flames of hell.”

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