raised up the Lord and will raise us up also by his
power.

6:15. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I
then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot?
God forbid!

6:16. Or know you not that he who is joined to a harlot is made one
body? For they shall be, saith he, two in one flesh.

6:17. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

6:18. Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body:
but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

6:19. Or know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy
Ghost, who is in you, whom you have from God: and you are not your own?

6:20. For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in
your body.

1 Corinthians Chapter 7

Lessons relating to marriage and celibacy. Virginity is preferable to a
married state.

7:1. Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a
man not to touch a woman.

7:2. But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and
let every woman have her own husband.

Have his own wife... That is, keep to his wife, which he hath. His
meaning is not to exhort the unmarried to marry: on the contrary, he
would have them rather continue as they are, (Ver. 7:8.) But he speaks
here to them that are already married; who must not depart from one
another, but live together as they ought to do in the marriage state.

7:3. Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in
like manner to the husband.

7:4. The wife hath not power of her own body: but the husband. And in
like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body: but the
wife.

7:5. Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time,
that you may give yourselves to prayer: and return together again, lest
Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

7:6. But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.

By indulgence... That is, by a condescension to your weakness.

7:7. For I would that all men were even as myself. But every one hath
his proper gift from God: one after this manner, and another after that.

7:8. But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them
if they so continue, even as I.

7:9. But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is
better to marry than to be burnt.

If they do not contain, etc... This is spoken of such as are free, and
not of such as, by vow, have given the