1 Corinthians 7:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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  • Prov 19:14 : 14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
  • 1 Cor 7:9 : 9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.
  • Prov 18:22 : 22 Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
  • 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
  • Eph 5:28 : 28 So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously; yet she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.

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  • 1 Cor 7:1
    84%

    1 Now concerning the things you wrote to me about: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

  • 1 Cor 7:3-14
    12 verses
    82%

    3 Let the husband give to the wife her due affection, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

    4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

    5 Do not deprive one another, except with consent for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

    6 But I speak this by permission, and not as a command.

    7 For I wish that all men were as I am. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.

    8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

    9 But if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

    10 And to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not leave her husband:

    11 But if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.

    12 But to the rest I speak, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her.

    13 And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, and he is willing to live with her, let her not leave him.

    14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Cor 7:24-29
    6 verses
    78%

    24 Brethren, let each one remain with God in the state in which he was called.

    25 Now concerning virgins: I have no command from the Lord, yet I give my judgment as one whom the Lord in his mercy has made trustworthy.

    26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

    27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

    28 But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

    29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short; so that from now on, even those who have wives should be as though they had none,

  • Mark 10:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

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

    8 And the two shall become one flesh: so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

  • Rom 7:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives; but if the husband is dead, she is released from the law of her husband.

    3 So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she will be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she is married to another man.

  • 1 Thess 4:3-4
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    3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

    4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

  • 1 Cor 7:32-39
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    75%

    32 But I want you to be without care. He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

    33 But he who is married cares about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

    34 There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

    35 And this I say for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.

    36 But if any man thinks he is behaving improperly toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of youth, and thus it must be, let him do what he will. He does not sin; let them marry.

    37 Nevertheless, he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own will, and has so determined in his heart that he will keep his virgin, does well.

    38 So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.

    39 A wife is bound by law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

  • Gen 2:24
    75%

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

  • Eph 5:33
    74%

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

  • Eph 5:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

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

    29 For no one ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church:

  • Eph 5:31
    74%

    31 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 7:16-17
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    16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife?

    17 But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches.

  • Heb 13:4
    73%

    4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

  • 1 Cor 6:16
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    16 What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, says He, shall be one flesh.

  • Deut 20:7
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    7 And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

  • Prov 5:17
    73%

    17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
    73%

    18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

  • Matt 19:5-6
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    73%

    5 And said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

    6 Therefore they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

  • Deut 24:1
    71%

    1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Matt 22:25
    71%

    25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.

  • 1 Cor 7:20
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    20 Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called.