1 Corinthians 7:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

Malachi 2:14

But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

1 Corinthians 7:3

Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

Ephesians 5:28

Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

Ephesians 5:33

But do you, everyone, have love for his wife, even as for himself; and let the wife see that she has respect for her husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;

1 Timothy 4:3

Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

Judges 21:22

And when their fathers or their brothers come and make trouble, you are to say to them, Give them to us as an act of grace; for we did not take them as wives for ourselves in war; and if you yourselves had given them to us you would have been responsible for the broken oath.