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605 B
Do not deprive each other
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)
so that you may devote yourselves to prayer
in order to have a period of especially deep prayer
devote yourselves
"commit yourselves"
come together again
"sleep together again"
because of your lack of self-control
"because after some days, your sexual desires will be harder to keep under control"