1 Corinthians 7:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:10 : 10 If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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  • 1 Cor 7:4-6
    3 verses
    86%

    4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

    6But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1¶ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Eph 5:31-33
    3 verses
    79%

    31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

    32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

    33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.

  • Eph 5:28-29
    2 verses
    78%

    28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

    29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

    8¶ Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:

  • Col 3:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18¶ Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

    19Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.

  • Eph 5:22-25
    4 verses
    77%

    22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

    23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

    24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.

    25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

  • 1 Cor 7:10-14
    5 verses
    76%

    10¶ And unto the married I command, [yet] not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from [her] husband:

    11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to [her] husband: and let not the husband put away [his] wife.

    12But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

    13And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

    14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
    75%

    1¶ Likewise, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

  • 1 Cor 7:33-36
    4 verses
    74%

    33But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.

    34There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.

    35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

    36¶ But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of [her] age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    73%

    16For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife?

  • Mark 10:7
    73%

    7‹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;›

  • Rom 7:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband.

    3So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

  • 1 Cor 7:38-39
    2 verses
    72%

    38So then he that giveth [her] in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth [her] not in marriage doeth better.

    39¶ The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    72%

    11Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    72%

    5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

  • Gen 2:24
    71%

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Exod 21:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

    11And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

  • Deut 24:1
    70%

    1¶ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    70%

    27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  • Job 31:10
    69%

    10[Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

  • 1 Cor 11:7
    69%

    7For a man indeed ought not to cover [his] head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

  • Rom 13:7
    69%

    7¶ Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute [is due]; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
    69%

    3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman [is] the man; and the head of Christ [is] God.

  • Num 30:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

    6And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

    7And her husband heard [it], and held his peace at her in the day that he heard [it]: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

  • Titus 2:5
    69%

    5[To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

  • Num 30:11
    68%

    11And her husband heard [it], and held his peace at her, [and] disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

  • Matt 19:5
    68%

    5‹And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?›