A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favour from the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But because sexual immorality is so common, , each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But because of the temptation to impurity and to avoid immorality, let each [man] have his own wife and let each [woman] have her own husband. American Standard Version (1901) But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Common English Bible Each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband because of sexual immorality. Catholic Public Domain Version But, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. |
A man who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favour from the Lord.
A house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.
And you ask, ‘Why? ’ Because even though the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, you have acted treacherously against her. She was your marriage partner and your wife by covenant.
But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Flee sexual immorality! Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.
Now in response to the matters you wrote about: ‘It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.’
A husband should fulfil his marital duty to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.
But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, since it is better to marry than to burn with desire.
In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.
that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honour,
They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.
When their fathers or brothers come to us and protest, we will tell them, “Show favour to them, since we did not get enough wives for each of them in the battle. You didn’t actually give the women to them, so you are not guilty of breaking your oath.” ’