1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
King James Version
In Context
1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 19:14House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Ephesians 5:28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 7:2-10
Against Fornication. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5 Defraud ye not one the other, except… Read the whole commentary →