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do not deprive each other of sleeping together
AT: "do not refuse to sleep with your spouse"
so that you may devote yourselves to prayer
They decide together to pass some days without sleeping together in order to have a period of especially deep prayer; in Judaism that might be a period of 1-2 weeks.
devote yourselves
"commit yourselves"
come together again
AT: "sleep together again"
because of your lack of self-control
control** - AT: "because after some days, your sexual desires will be harder to keep under control"
I say these things to you more as concession and not as command
Paul tells the Corinthians that they can take a short period of time to abstain from sleeping together for the purpose of prayer, but that this is a special case, not an continuing requirement.
were as I am
were unmarried (formerly-married or never-married), as Paul is.
But each one has his own gift from God, one of this kind and another of that kind
AT: "God gives one person a ability, and to another person some other ability."