Add parallel Print Page Options

But because of sexual-immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband give-back to his wife her due[a], and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have-authority[b] over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise also the husband does not have-authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 7:3 That is, what is due her, physically and otherwise.
  2. 1 Corinthians 7:4 Or, have-the-right.

But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife,(A) and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.

Read full chapter