⁹ But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

³ Is it possible for two to go walking together, if not by agreement?

²³ And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

¹⁴ House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

¹⁴ Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

¹⁵ And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?

¹⁶ And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹⁸ Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

¹⁹ Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

²⁰ For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

¹³ Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

³³ Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

⁴ Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

¹⁴ And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.