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


In Context

1 Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

3 Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.

4 The 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.

1 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:2But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman 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 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.