1 Corinthians 7:2

but on account of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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 those things about which you wrote to me: That it is good for a man not to receive a wife:

3Let the husband give to the wife that which is due, and likewise the wife also to the husband.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 6:18Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body.

Ephesians 5:28So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself:

1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing 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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