Douay Rheims Original ↷
1 Corinthians 7 📜 📕 ↷
Principles of Marriage
1 AND concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.📜💬📚
2 But because of fornication let every man have his own wife, & let every woman have her own husband.📜💬📚
3 Let the husband render his debt to the wife: and the wife also in like manner to her husband.📜💬📚
4 The woman hath not power of her own body: but her husband. And in like manner the man also hath not power of his own body; but the woman.📜💬📚
5 Defraud not one another, except perhaps by consent for a time, that you may give your self to prayer: and return again together, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.📜💬📚
6 But I say this by indulgence, not by commandment.📜💬📚
7 For I would all men to be as my self: but every one hath a proper gift of God; one so, and another so.📜💬📚
8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they so abide even as I also.📜💬📚
9 But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.📜💬📚
10 But to them that be joined in matrimony, not I give commandment, but our Lord, that the wife depart not from her husband:📜💬📚
11 and if she depart, to remain unmarried, or to be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife.📜💬📚
12 For to the rest, I say, not our Lord. If any brother have a wife an infidel, and she consent to dwell with him; let him not put her away.📜💬📚
13 And if any woman have a husband an infidel, and he consent to dwell with her; let her not put away her husband.📜💬📚
14 For the man an infidel is sanctified by the faithful woman; and the woman an infidel is sanctified by the faithful husband: otherwise your children should be unclean; but now they are holy.📜💬📚
15 But if the infidel depart, let him depart. For the brother or sister is not subject to servitude in such. But in peace hath God called us.📜💬📚
16 For how knowest thou woman, if thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou man, if thou shalt save the woman?📜💬📚
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