Verse 2
1 Corinthians 7:2
King James Version
2
Nevertheless,
to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Original Language Text
greek
διὰ δὲ τὰς πορνείας ἕκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα ἐχέτω, καὶ ἑκάστη τὸν ἴδιον ἄνδρα ἐχέτω.
English Translation
But because of immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me:
It is
good for a man not to touch a woman.
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Nevertheless,
to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her ow...
3
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
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The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not pow...
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5
Defraud ye not one the other, except
it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to f...
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6
But I speak this by permission,
and not of commandment.
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For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God (Elohim),...
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8
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
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9
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
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10
And unto the married I command,
yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from
her husband:
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But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to
her husband: and let not the hu...
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12
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be ple...
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13
And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let...
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14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the...
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15
But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such
ca...
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16
For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save
thy
husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whe...
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17
But as God (Elohim) hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him wal...
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18
Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcisi...
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19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God (...
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20
Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
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21
Art thou called
being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use
it rather.
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For he that is called in the Lord,
being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is...
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23
Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
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Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God (Elohim).
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Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath o...
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I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress,
I say, that
it is good for a man so...
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Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheles...
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But this I say, brethren, the time
is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as thou...
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And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and...
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And they that use this world, as not abusing
it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
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But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to...
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But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please
his wife.
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There is difference
also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of t...
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And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is co...
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But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of...
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Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his ow...
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So then he that giveth
her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth
her not in marriage doeth bett...
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The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at li...
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But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of Go...
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