Bible verses about "contraception" | Sawyer

¹² and because wickedness shall abound the love of the many shall become cold:

^{1 (3:1)} CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman; ² but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband. ³ Let the husband render to the wife her due, and in like manner also the wife the husband. ⁴ The wife has not the right to her body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband has not the right to his body, but the wife. ⁵ Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence. ⁶ But this I say by suggestion, not by command. ⁷ For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another. ^{8 (3:2)} And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good for them to continue as I am; ⁹ but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent. ¹⁰ But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband, ¹¹ and also if she is separated let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband leave his wife. ^{12 (3:3)} But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to live with him, let him not leave her; ¹³ and if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he is pleased to live with her, let her not leave the husband. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; else were your children impure, but now are they holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbelieving companion departs, let him depart; the brother or the sister is not bound in such cases; but God has called us to peace. ¹⁶ For how do you know, wife, that you will not save your husband? or how do you know, husband, that you will not save your wife? ^{17 (3:4)} Unless as the Lord has imparted to each one, as God has called each one, so let him walk; and so I appoint in all the churches. ¹⁸ Is any one called being circumcised, let him not be uncircumcised; is any one called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments. ²⁰ Let each one remain in the calling in which he was called; ²¹ were you called being a servant, care not for it; but if you can be free, use it rather. ²² For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like manner the called freeman is Christ's servant. ²³ You are bought with a price; be not servants of men. ²⁴ Let each one continue, brothers, in the calling in which he was called under God. ^{25 (3:5)} And concerning the virgins I have no ordinance of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. ²⁶ I think then that this is good on account of the present necessity, because it is good for man to be so. ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek not a wife. ²⁸ But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you. ²⁹ But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them, ³⁰ and those who weep as those not weeping, and those who rejoice as those not rejoicing, and those who buy as not possessing, ³¹ and those who use the world as those not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passes away. ³² But I wish you to be without cares. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; ³³ but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife. ³⁴ And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband. ³⁵ But I say this for your own profit; not to impose a snare on you, but for [your] honor, and [your] attending on the Lord without distraction. ^{36 (3:6)} But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry. ³⁷ But he that stands firm in mind, not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined in his mind to keep his virgin, does well. ³⁸ He that gives in marriage therefore does well, and he that gives not in marriage does better. ^{39 (3:7)} A woman is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead then she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier if she continues thus, in my opinion, and I think also I have the Spirit of God.