1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
KJV
διὰ δὲ τὰς πορνείας ἕκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα ἐχέτω, καὶ ἑκάστη τὸν ἴδιον ἄνδρα ἐχέτω.
Greek NT
propter fornicationem autem unusquisque suam uxorem habeat, et unaquæque suum virum habeat.
Vulgate
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
ASV
But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πορνεία
porneia
noun · 25×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἕκαστος
ekastos
adjective · 84×
ἴδιος
idios
adjective · 114×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Themes
Doctrines that cite this verse
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7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. The Power of Harmony in Relation to Prayer. Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them. Matthew 18:19 The word symphony is strictly applied to the harmonies of sounds in music. And there are indeed among musical sounds some accordant and others discordant. But the Evangelic Scripture is fam…
Q. What does the seventh commandment teach us? A. That God condemns all unchastity. We should therefore thoroughly detest it and, married or single, live decent and chaste lives.
Those who have the gift of celibacy from heaven, so that from the heart or with their whole soul they are pure and continent and are not aflame with desire, let them serve the Lord in that calling, as long as they shall feel endued with that divine gift; and let them not lift up themselves above others, but let them serve the Lord continuously in simplicity and humility. But th…
Carnal men abuse virginity , and the pleasure-loving bring forward the following verse in proof, Cursed be every one that raises not up seed in Israel. But we, made confident by God the Word that was made flesh of the Virgin, answer that virginity was implanted in man's nature from above and in the beginning. For man was formed of virgin soil. From Adam alone was Eve created. I…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
- 1Cor 7:9 — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
- 1Cor 7:9 — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
- 1Cor 7:35 — And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
- 1Thess 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
- 1Thess 4:4 — That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
- 1Tim 4:3 — Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
- Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
- Eph 5:28 — So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
- Eph 5:33 — Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
- Gen 2:24 — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
- Gen 26:34 — And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
- Heb 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- Judg 21:14 — And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
- Mal 2:14 — Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
- Matt 19:5 — And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
- Matt 19:11 — But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
- Prov 5:15 — Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
- Prov 5:18 — Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
- Prov 18:22 — Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
- Prov 18:22 — Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
- Prov 19:14 — House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
- Rev 2:14 — But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed u