¹⁰ If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

¹ Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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 render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

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

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.