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The Rules for Abstinence
Commentators agree that Paul sets strict conditions for temporary sexual abstinence in marriage. It must be by mutual consent, for a limited time, and for a specific, heightened spiritual purpose like a special season of prayer, not just for daily devotions.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 7:5
18th Century
Theologian
Defraud ye not, etc. Meaning, the right mentioned above. Do not withdraw from the companionship of each other.
Except it be wit…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 7:5
Except it be by consent for a season (ε μητ [αν] εκ συμφωνου προς καιρον). If αν is genuine, it can either be regarded as like εαν…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 7:5
19th Century
Bishop
Except it be . . . that you may give yourselves—i.e., that you may have leisure. Any such separation should be t…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 7:5
The present tense of the verb “deprive” (GK 691) in the prohibition in v.5 indicates that some at Corinth were practicing a kind of celibacy within…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 7:5
16th Century
Theologian
Defraud ye not one the other Profane persons might think that Paul does not act with sufficient modesty in speaking in this way about the …
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 7:5
17th Century
Pastor
Defraud you not one another By withholding due benevolence, denying the use of the marriage bed, refusing to pay the conj…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 7:1–9
17th Century
Minister
The apostle tells the Corinthians that it was good, at that particular time, for Christians to keep themselves single. Yet he says that marriage, a…