"Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband." — 1 Corinthians 7:2

1 Corinthians 7:2 · KJV

“Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”

— 1 Corinthians 7:2

Verse 1

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: {It is} good for a man not to touch a woman.

Verse 3

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

1 Corinthians 7 — Context

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: {It is} good for a man not to touch a woman.

Nevertheless, {to avoid} fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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.

Cross References

Ephesians 5:28

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless 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 7:9

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Proverbs 18:22

{Whoso} findeth a wife findeth a good {thing}, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Proverbs 5:18-19

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Malachi 2:14

Yet 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 19:14

House and riches {are} the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife {is} from the LORD.