Parallel Verses
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But because of the whoredoms, let every man have his own wife, and every wife her own husband.
New American Standard Bible
But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.
King James Version
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Holman Bible
But because sexual immorality is so common,
International Standard Version
Because sexual immorality is so rampant, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.
A Conservative Version
But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
American Standard Version
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Amplified
But because of [the temptation to participate in] sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
An Understandable Version
But, because of so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Anderson New Testament
But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.
Bible in Basic English
But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.
Common New Testament
But because of immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Daniel Mace New Testament
I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.
Darby Translation
but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
Godbey New Testament
but on account of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Goodspeed New Testament
But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.
John Wesley New Testament
Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; and let every woman have her own husband.
Julia Smith Translation
And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.
King James 2000
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.
Modern King James verseion
But, because of the fornications, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his wife: and let every woman have her husband.
Moffatt New Testament
but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.
Montgomery New Testament
but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.
NET Bible
But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.
New Heart English Bible
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Noyes New Testament
but on account of the commonness of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.
Sawyer New Testament
but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband.
The Emphasized Bible
But, on account of fornications, let, each man, have, his own wife, and, each woman, have, her own husband:
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.
Webster
Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Weymouth New Testament
But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.
Williams New Testament
but because of so much sexual immorality every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.
World English Bible
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Worrell New Testament
but, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Worsley New Testament
Nevertheless to prevent whoredoms, let every one have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Youngs Literal Translation
and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
Themes
Defrauding » Not defrauding others
Husbands' » Should have but one wife
Marriage » The duties of a husband
Marriage » The duties of a wife
Marriage » Why you should get married
Marriage » Designed for » Preventing fornication
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References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 7:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Concerning Christian Marriage
1 NOW with regard to those things concerning which ye have written unto me, it were good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 But because of the whoredoms, let every man have his own wife, and every wife her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence, and in like manner also the wife to the husband.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.
Ephesians 5:28
So ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself.
Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of the husband.
1 Timothy 4:3
prohibiting marriage, and enjoining abstinence from particular meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, and those who acknowledge the truth.