1 Corinthians 7:3
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
KJV
τῇ γυναικὶ ὁ ἀνὴρ τὴν ὀφειλὴν ἀποδιδότω, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ τῷ ἀνδρί.
Greek NT
Uxori vir debitum reddat : similiter autem et uxor viro.
Vulgate
Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
ASV
Let the husband render the debt to his wife: and the wife also in like manner to the husband.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γυνή
gune
noun · 219×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἀποδίδωμι
apodidomi
verb · 48×
ὀφειλή
opheile
noun · 3×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁμοίως
omoios
adverb · 31×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ὀφειλὴν | WH/Treg/NIV: ὀφειλὴν | RP: ὀφειλομένην εὔνοιαν
- ὀφειλὴν — SBLGNT
- ὀφειλὴν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ὀφειλομένην εὔνοιαν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder
- 1Pet 3:7 — Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hinder
- Exod 21:10 — If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.