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Don`t defraud one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn`t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Defraud ye not, etc. Meaning, the right mentioned above. Do not withdraw from the companionship of each other.
Except it be wit…
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…
19th Century
Anglican
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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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…
16th Century
Protestant
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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Defraud you not one another By withholding due benevolence, denying the use of the marriage bed, refusing to pay the conj…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
After rebuking the fornicator and those who upheld him, the Apostle now begins to discuss marriage. In this regard, he does three things:
