1 Corinthians 7:2

The Scriptures 1998

But because of whoring, let each one have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

He who has found a wife has found good, And receives favour from יהוה.

Proverbs 19:14

Houses and riches are the inheritance from fathers, But an understanding wife is from יהוה.

Malachi 2:14

And you said, “Why?” Because יהוה  has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have acted treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.

Matthew 5:32

“But I say to you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the matter of whoring, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a woman who has been put away commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee whoring. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits whoring sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 7:1

And concerning the matters you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 7:3

Let the husband render to his wife what is her due, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9

but if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

Ephesians 5:28

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

Ephesians 5:33

However, you too, everyone, let each one love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she fears her husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in set-apartness and respect,

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods which Elohim created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Judges 21:22

“And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we shall say to them, ‘Favour us with them, because we did not take a wife for any of them in battle, neither have you given them to them, making yourselves guilty of your oath.’ ”