1 Corinthians 7:2
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
World English Bible
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In Context
1Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
3Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:18Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 19:14House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
1 Corinthians 6:18Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Ephesians 5:28Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
1 Timothy 4:3forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving 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 →