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# Do not deprive each other
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The word "deprive" means to keep from someone something that the other person has the right to receive. "Do not refuse to have marital relations with your spouse" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# so that you may devote yourselves to prayer
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in order to have a period of especially deep prayer
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# devote yourselves
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"commit yourselves"
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# come together again
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"sleep together again"
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# because of your lack of self-control
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"because after some days, your sexual desires will be harder to keep under control"
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# I say these things to you as a concession and not as a command
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Possible meanings are Paul is telling the Corinthians that he is allowing them, but not commanding them, 1) to marry and sleep together or 2) to stop sleeping together for a time.
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# were as I am
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Either Paul had never married or his wife had died. It is unlikely that he had been through a divorce.
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# But each one has his own gift from God. One has this kind of gift, and another that kind
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"God enables people to do different things. He enables one person to do one thing and another person to do something different"
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/pray]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/satan]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/tempt]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/command]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/gift]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]] |