World English Bible
1 Corinthians 7:6
“But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.”
Verse in context — 1 Corinthians 7
4
The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.
5
Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6
But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
7
Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
8
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
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