1 Corinthians 7:2
But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
3Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth:
Proverbs 19:14House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from LORD.
1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.
Ephesians 5:28So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry, to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thankfulness by those who 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 →