And you, instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this deed of shame, are filled with self-complacency!

Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.

If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

Love is patient and kind. Love knows neither envy nor jealousy. Love is not forward and self-assertive, nor boastful and conceited.