1 Corinthians 7:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Exod 21:10 : 10 If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 In the same way, you husbands, live with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

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  • 1 Cor 7:4-6
    3 verses
    86%

    4The 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.

    5Do 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.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

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

    2Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Eph 5:31-33
    3 verses
    79%

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

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

    33Nevertheless 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
    78%

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

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

  • 1 Pet 3:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7In the same way, you husbands, live with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

    8Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous;

  • Col 3:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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

  • Eph 5:22-25
    4 verses
    77%

    22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

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

    24Therefore just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

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

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

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

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

    12But 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.

    13And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, and he is willing to live 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; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Pet 3:1
    75%

    1In the same way, you wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the word, they may also be won without a word by the conduct of their wives;

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

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

    34There 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.

    35And 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.

    36But 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:16
    73%

    16For 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?

  • Mark 10:7
    73%

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

  • Rom 7:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2For 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.

    3So 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 Cor 7:38-39
    2 verses
    72%

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

    39A 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.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
    72%

    11Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    72%

    5For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands:

  • Gen 2:24
    71%

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

  • Exod 21:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.

    11And if he does not do these three things for her, then she shall go out free, without paying money.

  • Deut 24:1
    70%

    1When 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.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    70%

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

  • Job 31:10
    69%

    10Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

  • 1 Cor 11:7
    69%

    7For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

  • Rom 13:7
    69%

    7Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
    69%

    3But I want you to 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 a husband when she vowed, or uttered anything out of her lips with which 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 with which she bound her soul shall stand.

  • Titus 2:5
    69%

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

  • Num 30:11
    68%

    11And her husband heard it and held his peace at her and did not disallow her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.

  • Matt 19:5
    68%

    5And 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?