1 Corinthians 7:5

Tree of Life Version

Do not deprive one another—except by mutual consent for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Cross References

Exodus 19:15

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not draw near your wives.”

Exodus 21:10

If he takes another wife, he is not to diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.

Joel 2:16

Gather the people; sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even those nursing at breasts. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her chamber.

Zechariah 7:3

and to speak to the kohanim of the House of Adonai-Tzva’ot and to the prophets saying, “Should I mourn and consecrate myself in the fifth month as I have done for so many years?”

Matthew 17:21

[footnote: Most manuscripts omit verse 21: But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.]

Matthew 19:11

But He said to them, “Not everyone can accept this saying—only those to whom it has been given.

Matthew 4:10

Then Yeshua says to him, “Go away, satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship Adonai your God, and Him only shall you serve.’”

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have the rights to her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband does not have the rights to his own body, but the wife.

1 Thessalonians 3:5

For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faithfulness, for fear that the tempter had tempted you and that our labor might be in vain.