1 Corinthians 7:2

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

Young's Literal Translation

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

1And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good [it is] for a man not to touch a woman,

3to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

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Cross References

Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

Proverbs 19:14House and wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah [is] an understanding wife.

1 Corinthians 6:18flee the whoredom; every sin — whatever a man may commit — is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Ephesians 5:28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife — himself he doth love;

1 Timothy 4:3forbidding to marry — to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging 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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