1 Corinthians 7:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² But because of the temptation to impurity and to avoid immorality, let each [man] have his own wife and let each [woman] have her own husband.

American Standard Version (1901)

² But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Common English Bible

² Each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband because of sexual immorality.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² But, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:2 Cross References

Ephesians 5:28

In the same way, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:33

Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.

Proverbs 18:22

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Shun sexual immorality! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against the body itself.

1 Timothy 4:3

They forbid marriage and abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Proverbs 19:14

House and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”

1 Corinthians 7:3

The husband should give to his wife what is due her and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,

Judges 21:22

Then if their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Be generous and allow us to have them, because we did not capture in battle a wife for each man. But neither did you incur guilt by giving your daughters to them.’ ”