1 Corinthians 7:2 Parallel Translations

But in order to avoid sexual sins, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

WEY:

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

1 Corinthians 7:2 Cross References

XREF:

1 Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 7:3 The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

7:2 [To avoid] fornication. To prevent this sin, and the temptations to it in an unmarried state, especially in a vicious community, it was best for each sex that they be married; the normal condition of the sexes.

WES:

7:2 Yet, when it is needful, in order to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife. His own - For Christianity allows no polygamy.

MHC:

7:1-9 The apostle tells the Corinthians that it was good, in that juncture of time, for Christians to keep themselves single. Yet he says that marriage, and the comforts of that state, are settled by Divine wisdom. Though none may break the law of God, yet that perfect rule leaves men at liberty to serve him in the way most suited to their powers and circumstances, of which others often are very unfit judges. All must determine for themselves, seeking counsel from God how they ought to act.

CONC:

Account Avoid Desires Flesh Fornication Fornications Husband Immoralities Immorality Lewdness Nevertheless Proper Sexual Temptation Whoredom Wife

Account Avoid Desires Flesh Fornication Fornications Husband Immorality Lewdness Nevertheless Proper Sexual Temptation Whoredom Wife

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