1 Corinthians 7:2 - Tree of Life Version But because of much immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have 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. |
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Adonai.
Yet you say, “Why?” Because Adonai bears witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have treated deceitfully. Yet she had been your companion and your wife by covenant.
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Flee from sexual immorality! Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body—but the one committing sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Let the husband fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
But if they do not have self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with desire.
In the same way, husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
In any case, let each of you love his own wife as himself, and let the wife respect her husband.
to know, each of you, how to gain control over his own body in holiness and honor—
They forbid people to marry; they command people to abstain from foods that God created for the faithful to share with thanksgiving, having come to know the truth.
So it will be, if their fathers or brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously for us, because we did not provide each one of them his wife in battle—nor did you give the girls to them, else you would now be guilty.’”