1 Corinthians 7:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:2 Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Proverbs 19:14

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers: But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

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, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Matthew 5:32

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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.

1 Corinthians 7:1

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

1 Corinthians 7:3

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

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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:

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

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.

Judges 21:22

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain unto us, that we will say unto them, Grant them graciously unto us: because we took not for each man of them his wife in battle: neither did ye give them unto them; else would ye now be guilty.