1 Corinthians 7:2

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

To find a wife is to find happiness, a favor granted by the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

Home and possessions are an inheritance from parents, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Malachi 2:14

And you say, “Why?”— Because the Lord is witness between you and the wife of your youth With whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion, your covenanted wife.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Teaching About Oaths.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now in regard to the matters about which you wrote: “It is a good thing for a man not to touch a woman,”

1 Corinthians 7:3

The husband should fulfill his duty toward his wife, and likewise the wife toward her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9

but if they cannot exercise self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to be on fire.

Ephesians 5:28

So [also] husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:33

In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each of you know how to acquire a wife for himself in holiness and honor,

1 Timothy 4:3

They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Judges 21:22

When their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we shall say to them, ‘Release them to us as a kindness, since we did not take a woman for every man in battle. Nor did you yourselves give your daughters to them, thus incurring guilt.’”