²⁸ Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

²⁹ For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;

³⁰ Because we are parts of his body.

³¹ 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.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

¹⁰ So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

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.

¹² And further, my son, take note of this: of the making of books there is no end, and much learning is a weariness to the flesh.

⁵ As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

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.

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.

¹⁴ I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

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:

¹⁴ For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

¹⁵ If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not a part of the body; it is no less a part of the body.

¹⁶ And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.

¹⁷ If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?

¹⁸ But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

¹⁹ And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

²⁰ But now they are all different parts, but one body.

²¹ And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

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.

²⁵ So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

²⁹ And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

³⁰ And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.

³¹ Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose: