1 Corinthians 7:2
Good News Translation
But because there is so much immorality, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.

New Revised Standard Version
But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Contemporary English Version
Well, having your own husband or wife should keep you from doing something immoral.

New American Bible
but because of cases of immorality every man should have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband.

to avoid.

1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.

1 Corinthians 6:18 Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Proverbs 5:18,19 Let her be thy dearest hind, and most agreeable fawn: let her breasts inebriate thee at all times: be thou delighted continually with her love. . . .

1 Timothy 4:3 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

let.

Proverbs 18:22 He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.

Proverbs 19:14 House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.

Malachi 2:14 And you have said: For what cause? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.

Ephesians 5:28,33 So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. . . .

Context
Principles of Marriage
1Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband. 3Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in like manner to the husband.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:32
But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:1
Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 7:3
Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in like manner to the husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour,

1 Corinthians 7:1
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