1 Corinthians 7:2 KJV
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2, King James Version
In context
1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Cross-references
- Ephesians 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
- Ephesians 5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
- 1 Corinthians 7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
- Proverbs 5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
- Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.