¹⁵ Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

² But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

³ Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

⁴ The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

⁵ Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

¹⁸ Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

¹⁹ As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

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.