KJV King James Version
Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
WEB World English Bible
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
ASV American Standard Version
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
Surrounding context — 1 Corinthians 7
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 [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
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διὰG1223 · diathrough/because ofδὲG1161 · dethenτὰςG3588 · hothe/this/whoπορνείαςG4202 · porneiasexual sinἕκαστοςG1538 · hekastoseachτὴνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἑαυτοῦG1438 · heautouthemselfγυναῖκαG1135 · gunēwomanἐχέτω,G2192 · echōto have/beκαὶG2532 · kaiandἑκάστηG1538 · hekastoseachτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἴδιονG2398 · idiosone's own/privateἄνδραG435 · anērmanἐχέτω.G2192 · echōto have/be
Cross-references
Ephesians 5:28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.1 Corinthians 7:9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.Proverbs 5:18-19Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.Proverbs 18:22[Whoso] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour of the LORD.1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.Malachi 2:14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.Proverbs 19:14House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.1 Timothy 4:3Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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