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1 Corinthians 7:2
1 Corinthians 7:2 is verse 2 of 1 Corinthians chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
King James Version
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
World English Bible
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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1 Corinthians 7:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
2 But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 7:9But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
1 Corinthians 6:18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Proverbs 5:18May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
Proverbs 5:19A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
1 Timothy 4:3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Proverbs 18:22He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Proverbs 19:14Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Malachi 2:14Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Ephesians 5:28In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:33Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.