1 Corinthians 7:2

The Passion Translation

Perhaps. But because of the danger of immorality, each husband should have sexual intimacy with his wife and each wife should have sexual intimacy with her husband.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

When a man finds a wife, he has found a treasure! For she is the gift of God to bring him joy and pleasure. But the one who divorces a good woman loses what is good from his house. To choose an adulteress is both stupid and ungodly.

Proverbs 19:14

You can inherit houses and land from your parents, but a good wife only comes as a gracious gift from God!

Matthew 5:32

However, I say to you, if anyone divorces his wife for any reason, except for infidelity, he causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”

1 Corinthians 6:18

This is why you must keep running away from sexual immorality. For every other sin a person commits is external to the body, but immorality involves sinning against your own body.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now for my response concerning the issues you’ve asked me to address. You wrote saying, “It is proper for a man to live in celibacy.”

1 Corinthians 7:3

A husband has the responsibility of meeting the sexual needs of his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if you have no power over your passions, then you should go ahead and marry, for marriage is far better than a continual battle with lust.

Ephesians 5:28

Husbands have the obligation of loving and caring for their wives the same way they love and care for their own bodies, for to love your wife is to love your own self.

Ephesians 5:33

So every married man should be gracious to his wife just as he is gracious to himself. And every wife should be tenderly devoted to her husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

Yes, each of you must guard your sexual purity with holiness and dignity,

1 Timothy 4:3

They will require celibacy and dietary restrictions that God doesn’t expect, for he created all foods to be received with the celebration of faith by those who fully know the truth.

Judges 21:22

If their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we’ll tell them, ‘Do us this favor, please. Grant us permission for the Benjamites to keep them as wives because in battle we didn’t seize them from you. And since you didn’t give them to us, you’re not guilty of breaking your oath.’ ”