Devine Scripture

1 Corinthians 7:2

1 Corinthians chapter 7 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Context

v.1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

v.2This passage

v.3Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ephesians 5:28

    Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

  • Proverbs 19:14

    House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

  • 1 Timothy 4:3

    forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

  • Proverbs 5:18

    Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in 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.

  • Proverbs 18:22

    Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.