^{5 Ref} Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

^{6 Ref} and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

^{7 Ref} for I wish all men to be even as I myself `am'; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

^{8 Ref} And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';

^{9 Ref} and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;