1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid impurity, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
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 fulfill his marital duty to his wife: and likewise the wife to the husband.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:18Flee sexual immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside his body; but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Ephesians 5:28So husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding marriage, and commanding abstinence from foods which God has 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 →