1 Corinthians 7:2

New English Translation

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

The one who finds a wife finds what is enjoyable, and receives a pleasurable gift from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

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

Malachi 2:14

Yet you ask, “Why?” The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin a person commits is outside of the body” – but the immoral person sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

1 Corinthians 7:3

A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

Ephesians 5:28

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

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

1 Timothy 4:3

They will prohibit 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 brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them, “Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”