1 Corinthians 7:2

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

Montgomery New Testament

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

1Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

3Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Ephesians 5:28That is how husbands ought to love their wives, as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

1 Timothy 4:3who discourage marriage, and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thankfulness, by those who believe, and have a clear knowledge of 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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