2But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.


In Context

1 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry.

2 But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

4 The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.

1st Corinthians 7:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:2Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:2But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:2but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:2Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:2and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.