1 Corinthians 7:2

Weymouth NT

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

Cross References

Matthew 5:32

But I tell you that every man who puts away his wife except on the ground of unfaithfulness causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries her when so divorced commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 7:1

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

1 Corinthians 7:3

Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

1 Corinthians 7:9

If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

Ephesians 5:28

So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Ephesians 5:33

Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.