1 Corinthians 7:2
World English Bible (WEB)
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
In context
1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
4 The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
1 Corinthians 7:2 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- KJV King James Version
- Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
- DBY Darby Translation
- but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each [woman] have her own husband.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.