1 Corinthians 7:2

The Text-Critical English New Testament

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

Cross References

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, apart from a matter of fornication, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee fornication. Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 7:1

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

1 Corinthians 7:3

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, 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 burn with passion.

Ephesians 5:28

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

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless, each man among you must love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

and that each 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 that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.