1 Corinthians 7:2
But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1Now concerning the thing whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
3Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:18Let thy vein be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of thy youth:
Proverbs 19:14House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:18Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.
Ephesians 5:28So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself.
1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and by them that have known 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 →