1 Corinthians 7:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

But because of the temptation to 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 fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness to the covenant 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 every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Shun immorality. Every other sin which a man commits is outside the body; but the immoral man sins against his own body.

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 cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.

Ephesians 5:28

Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:33

however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

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

1 Timothy 4:3

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

Judges 21:22

And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us; because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’ ”