1 Corinthians 7:1

New International Version

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

Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:8

Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.

Genesis 20:6

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Ruth 2:9

Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”

1 Corinthians 7:2

But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.