en_tn/1co/07/05.md

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do not deprive one another sexually

AT: "do not refuse to sexually satisfy your spouse"

so that you may devote yourselves to prayer

They decide together to pass some days without sex in order to have a period of especially deep prayer; in Judaism that might be a period of 1-2 weeks.

devote yourselves

"commit yourselves"

come together again

return to sexual activity

because of your lack of self-control

AT: "because after some days, your sexual desires will be harder to keep under control"

I say these things to you more as concession and not as command

Paul tells the Corinthians that they can take a short period of time to abstain from sex for the purpose of prayer, but that this is a special case, not an continuing requirement.

were as I am

were unmarried (formerly-married or never-married), as Paul is.

But each one has his own gift from God, one of this kind and another of that kind

AT: "God gives one person a ability, and to another person some other ability."