JOSEPH SMITH TRANSLATION
1 CORINTHIANS 7: 1-2, 5, 26, 29-33
Paul answered questions about marriage among those called on missions. (compare 1 Corinthians 7: 1-2, 5, 26, 29-33)
1 NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me saying, It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, I say, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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5 Depart ye not one from the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, for a man so to remain that he may do greater good.
29 But I speak unto you who are called unto the ministry. For this I say, brethren, the time that remaineth is but short, that ye shall be sent forth unto the ministry. Even they who have wives, shall be as though they had none; for ye are called and chosen to do the Lord’s work.
30 And it shall be with them who weep, as though they wept not; and them who rejoice, as though they rejoiced not, and them who buy, as though they possessed not;