1 Corinthians 7:2

but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

In Context

1But concerning the things of which ye have written [to me]: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman;

3Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.

Proverbs 19:14House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

Ephesians 5:28So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry, [bidding] to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful 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 →

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