1Cor 7:5, 29 | ESV | STEP | Do not deprive one another , except perhaps by agreement for a limited time , that you may devote yourselves to prayer ; but then come together again , so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control .

a[Ex. 19:15; 1 Sam. 21:4; Eccles. 3:5; Zech. 12:12-14]

1 Corinthians 7:5

5 ^aDo not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, ^bso that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 7:29

29 This is what I mean, brothers: ^cthe appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,