But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control. . . .

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,