The Symmetry of Covenant Sexuality in 1 Cor. 7:1—7

1-2a	Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication
2b, c	A. let every man        B. have his own wife, and        B. let every woman A. have her own husband.
3	A. Let the husband        B. render unto the wife               C. due benevolence:               C. and likewise also        B. the wife A. unto the husband.
4	A. The wife hath not power of her own body,        B. but the husband:        B. and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, A. but the wife.
5	A. Defraud ye not one the other,        B. except it be with consent for a time,               C. that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer;        B. and come together again, A. that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
6, 7	A. But I speak this by permission,        B. and not of commandment.        B. For I would that all men were even as I myself. A. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.