1 Corinthians 7:5

The Text-Critical English New Testament

Do not deprive one another, except by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer and then come together again so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Cross References

Matthew 17:21

But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”

Matthew 19:11

But Jesus said to them, “Not all men can accept this statement, but only those to whom it is given.

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘Yoʋ shall worship the Lord yoʋr God, and him only shall yoʋ serve.’ ”

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent Timothy to find out about your faith, lest somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor had been in vain.