1 Corinthians 7:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

The 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 3:3 : 3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for [another] man: so [will] I also [be] for thee.
  • Matt 19:9 : 9 ‹And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except› [it be] ‹for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.›
  • Mark 10:11-12 : 11 And he saith unto them, ‹Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.› 12 ‹And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.›

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  • 1 Cor 7:1-3
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    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.

    3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:5-6
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    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 7:16
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    16For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife?

  • Eph 5:28-29
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    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:

  • Rom 7:1-4
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    1¶ Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

    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.

    4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

  • 1 Cor 7:9-14
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    9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

    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 Cor 7:39-40
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    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.

    40But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

  • Eph 5:22-25
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    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 7:33-35
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    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.

  • 1 Cor 11:11-12
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    11Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

    12For as the woman [is] of the man, even so [is] the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make [them] the members of an harlot? God forbid.

    16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

  • 1 Pet 3:7
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    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.

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    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.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But this I say, brethren, the time [is] short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7‹For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;›

    8‹And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.›

  • 1 Cor 11:7-8
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    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.

    8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

  • 1 Cor 9:5
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    5Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and [as] the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

  • 1 Cor 6:19
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    19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

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

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    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.

  • Col 3:18
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    18¶ Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    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 6:13
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    13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • 1 Cor 7:37
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    37Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.