1 Corinthians 7:2
but because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
1NOW concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;
3Let the husband render to the wife her due; and in like manner the wife also to the husband.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man commits is without the body; but he that commits fornication, sins against his own body.
Ephesians 5:28So husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself.
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from food, which God created to be received with thanksgiving, for those[4:3] 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 →