1 Corinthians 7:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hos 3:3 : 3 and I say unto her, `Many days thou dost remain for Me, thou dost not go a-whoring, nor become any one's; and I also `am' for thee.'
  • Matt 19:9 : 9 `And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'
  • Mark 10:11-12 : 11 and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her; 12 and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'

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  • 1 Cor 7:1-3
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    86%

    1And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good `it is' for a man not to touch a woman,

    2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

    3to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

  • 1 Cor 7:5-6
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    85%

    5Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

    6and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

  • 1 Cor 7:16
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    16for what, hast thou known, O wife, whether the husband thou shalt save? or what, hast thou known, O husband, whether the wife thou shalt save?

  • Eph 5:28-29
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    28so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

    29for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

  • Rom 7:1-4
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    1Are ye ignorant, brethren -- for to those knowing law I speak -- that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

    2for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

    3so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

    4So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

  • 1 Cor 7:9-14
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    9and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

    10and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

    11but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

    12And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

    13and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

    14for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

  • 1 Cor 7:39-40
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    39A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

    40and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

  • Eph 5:22-25
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    22The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

    23because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ `is' head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

    24but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also `are' the wives to their own husbands in everything.

    25The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

  • 1 Cor 7:33-35
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    33and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

    34The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

    35And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

  • 1 Cor 11:11-12
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    11but neither `is' a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,

    12for as the woman `is' of the man, so also the man `is' through the woman, and the all things `are' of God.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make `them' members of an harlot? let it be not!

    16have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be -- saith He -- the two for one flesh.'

  • 1 Pet 3:7
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    7The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with `them', according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel -- to the wife -- imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

  • Eph 5:31-33
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    31`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

    32this secret is great, and I speak in regard to Christ and to the assembly;

    33but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

  • Mark 10:7-8
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    7on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

    8and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

  • 1 Cor 11:7-8
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    7for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,

    8for a man is not of a woman, but a woman `is' of a man,

  • 1 Cor 9:5
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    5have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

  • 1 Cor 6:19
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    19Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

  • Gen 2:24
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    24therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

  • 1 Cor 11:3
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    3and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

  • Col 3:18
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    18The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

  • 1 Pet 3:1
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    1In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13the meats `are' for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body `is' not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

  • 1 Cor 7:37
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    37And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart -- not having necessity -- and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart -- to keep his own virgin -- doth well;