5 Don’t withhold yourselves from each other unless you agree to do so for a set time to devote yourselves to prayer. Then you should get back together so that Satan doesn’t use your lack of self-control to tempt you.
6 What I have just said is not meant as a command but as a suggestion.
7 I would like everyone to be like me. However, each person has a special gift from God, and these gifts vary from person to person.
8 I say to those who are not married, especially to widows: It is good for you to stay single like me.
9 However, if you cannot control your desires, you should get married. It is better for you to marry than to burn ⌊with sexual desire⌋.
10 I pass this command along (not really I, but the Lord): A wife shouldn’t leave her husband.
11 If she does, she should stay single or make up with her husband. Likewise, a husband should not divorce his wife.