1 Corinthians 7:2
Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
1Nowe concerning the thinges whereof ye wrote vnto mee, It were good for a man not to touche a woman.
3Let the husband giue vnto the wife due beneuolence, and likewise also the wife vnto the husband.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.
Proverbs 19:14House and riches are the inheritance of the fathers: but a prudent wife commeth of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication: euery sinne that a man doeth, is without the bodie: but hee that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne bodie.
Ephesians 5:28So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: he that loueth his wife, loueth him selfe.
1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marrie, and commanding to abstaine from meates which God hath created to be receiued with giuing thankes of them which beleeue and knowe the trueth.
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 →