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1 Corinthians 7:4 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does. "

1 Corinthians 7:4

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2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

3 Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.

4 The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

5 Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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1 Corinthians 7:1

"Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman."

1 Corinthians 7:2

"But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband."

1 Corinthians 7:3

"Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband."

1 Corinthians 7:5

"Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control."

1 Corinthians 7:6

"But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment."

1 Corinthians 7:7

"Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind."

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