1 Corinthians 7:2

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 19:14

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

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was a witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is well for a man not to touch a woman.”

1 Corinthians 7:3

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.

Ephesians 5:28

In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:33

Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,

1 Timothy 4:3

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

Judges 21:22

Then if their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Be generous and allow us to have them; because we did not capture in battle a wife for each man. But neither did you incur guilt by giving your daughters to them.’ ”