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31 lines
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## do not deprive each other of sleeping together ##
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AT: "do not refuse to sleep with your spouse"
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## so that you may devote yourselves to prayer ##
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They decide together to pass some days without sleeping together in order to have a period of especially deep prayer; in Judaism that might be a period of 1-2 weeks.
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## devote yourselves ##
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"commit yourselves"
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## come together again ##
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AT: "sleep together again"
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## because of your lack of self-control ##
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control** - AT: "because after some days, your sexual desires will be harder to keep under control"
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## I say these things to you more as concession and not as command ##
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Paul tells the Corinthians that they can take a short period of time to abstain from sleeping together for the purpose of prayer, but that this is a special case, not an continuing requirement.
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## were as I am ##
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were unmarried (formerly-married or never-married), as Paul is.
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## But each one has his own gift from God, one of this kind and another of that kind ##
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AT: "God gives one person a ability, and to another person some other ability." |