“You have given up your wife, to whom you are bound. This is a big step you have taken. You are not abusing her, you say, but claiming that you can be chaste and live more purely. But look how your poor wife is being destroyed as a result, because she is unable to endure your purity! You should sleep with your wife, no…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.33.23-25
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2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
— 1 Corinthians 7:2 —
3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.