Instruction on Marriage
1 Now regarding the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to abstain from sexual relations.7:1 Or to live a celibate life; Greek reads It is good for a man not to touch a woman.2 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
3 The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. 4 The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife.