1 Corinthians 7:2

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

1I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

3Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

Ephesians 5:28So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

1 Timothy 4:3forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, 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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