1 Corinthians 7:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

1 Corinthians 7:5 —

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Exodus 19:15
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
Joel 2:16
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.
1 Samuel 21:4-5
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. …
Zechariah 12:12-14
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; …
Matthew 19:11
But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Betrothal Chastity Commandments Concubinage Continence Courtship Demons

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 the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Defraud ... not--namely, of the conjugal duty “due” (1Co 7:3; compare the Septuagint, Ex 21:10). except it be--“unless perchance” [Alford]. give yourselves to--literally, “be at leisure for”; be free from interruptions for; namely, on some special “season,” as the Greek for “time” means (compare Ex 19:15; Joe 2:16; Zec 7:3). fasting and prayer--The oldest manuscripts omit “fasting and”; an inte…