5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
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And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women. …
And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; …
But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)The apostle comes now, as a faithful and skilful casuist, to answer some cases of conscience which the Corinthians had proposed to him. Those were things whereof they wrote to him , 1 Cor. 7:1. As the lips of ministers should keep knowledge , so the people should ask the law at their mouths . The apostle was as ready to resolve as they were to propose their doubts. In the former chapter, he warns…
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