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.

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

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.

³ For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

⁴ So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

⁵ Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

⁶ And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.

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.

²⁰ Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

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.

¹³ With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

¹⁵ Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

¹⁶ Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

¹⁷ But he who is united to the Lord is one spirit.

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.

⁴ And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

⁵ For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?

⁶ So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man.

⁷ They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

³ But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;

²⁸ But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

¹⁵ ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.

²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

²³ And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

²⁴ For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

²⁵ Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

²⁷ And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

²⁸ And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;