6But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.
6But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.
3 Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.
4 The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.
5 Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
6 But this I say, as consenting to, not as commanding it.
7 Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.
8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them that they remain even as I.
7:6But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment.
7:6I say this as a concession, not as a command.
7:6But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment.
7:6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
7:6But this I say by way of permission, not of commandment.
7:6But I speak this by permission, and not as a commandment.
7:6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
7:6and this I say by way of concurrence — not of command,
7:6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.