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1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2 · King James Version

In other versions

  • But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    ASV

  • But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

    BBE

  • but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband.

    DBY

  • But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    WEB

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

    YLT

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

    ENG

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

    WBT

  • But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

    BSB

In context

1Now 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.

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.

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