You must not refuse each other what is due, unless you agree to do so for a while, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then to come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

But if the one who is not a believer wishes to separate, let the separation take place. In such cases the brother or sister is not a slave; God has called you to live in peace.

If you were a slave when you were called, never mind. Even if you can gain your freedom, make the most of your present condition instead.

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

But a man who has definitely made up his mind, under no constraint of passion but with full self-control, and who has decided in his own mind to keep her as she is, will be doing what is right.

Though I am free from anyone's control, I have made myself everyone's slave, so as to win over all the more.

But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.